Quotes by Teodor Mazilu

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Art gives us the opportunity to communicate with those who were before us, and with our contemporaries, and with those who will come; art is the only one able to emerge victorious from the battle with time, to transform everything into the present.

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The need to consume art and the need to create come from the same source.

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A true artist has the innocence of discovering life from the beginning.

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Art being love is at the same time a shared creation. Of course you need talent to write a poem, but you also need talent to listen to a poem. Without people capable of loving poetry, music, we artists would not exist, it would mean talking in the desert.

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I love art because it reminds with tragic persistence of the nobility and eternity of man. If man were a simple agglomeration of biological data, he would not need Eminescu's poetry and Bach's music, he would do very well without them. But man is the supreme creation of nature. The love of art is the love of our enduring essence…

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Art is love and it necessarily involves communication... We never write for ourselves - but, first of all, for others... Any sensitive person, even without the genius of Shakespeare, experiences the need for communication, the desire to get out of the narrow space of limited experience.

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Being a writer does not mean stylistically capitalizing on your experience, transforming personal data into metaphors. It means much more: a state of permanent lucidity. The destiny of a writer begins with the intensity and seriousness of living.

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Art is a relationship, and in order to be understood, the creator must have life, as well as the one who discovers it. With the life we ​​have in us we recognize the life that exists in others...

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Whoever knows a truth is the master of the one who does not know it.

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Mimicking the truth... sometimes seems more believable than the truth itself.