Quotes by Tudor Vianu

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Art is creation in joy. When every mortal attains the consciousness of an artist, the face of the world will change.

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Art... result appeared at the point of intersection of the plastic force of nature with the creative faculty of man.

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A society devoid of artistic activity is something impossible to find, both in the historical and prehistoric past and in the ethnographic present. The history and scope of art therefore coincide with the entire past of mankind and its entire spatial variety.

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The artist ... a voice through which the aspirations, pains and joys of all or a large part of humanity are expressed.

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Creative fantasy is not an exclusive faculty of the artist and by which he would isolate himself from the rest of the people. The creative imagination in the artist, just like the other functions of his structure, is nothing but the intensification of an aptitude common to all men.

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A developed reception of art presupposes an educated and formed consciousness. The satisfaction awakened by a work of art increases in proportion to the lucidity with which we intellectually master it, understanding it in its values ​​and mechanism.

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Only a man who was once at the cross of Hercules can draw real accents from the tragedy of life, worthy of great art.

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People drowned in brutality, coarse souls can never adopt the aesthetic attitude, the beauty of nature and art remains mute to them...

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Frequenting art produces that state of inner harmony favorable to morality, but it is no less true that inner harmony and a certain degree of moral refinement are indispensable conditions for establishing contact with beauty.

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Art is eternal in its aesthetic form, and temporal in its content. Through the first, art lasts; by the second it wears out and grows old.

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The egoism, lack of piety and sometimes intellectual limitation of the esthete cannot be compensated by his keen sensitivity to beauty. In this spiritual constellation, aesthetic values ​​themselves seem debased...

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Humanity in man presupposes the totality of points of view and their appropriate distribution to the situations of life. For this reason, disregarding vast regions of the field of values, in favor of aesthetic value alone, is always accompanied by serious human flaws...

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A work of art is a respite of beauty in an ugly or indifferent world. Through art, a value is introduced in a point of the world that the rest of it lacks. Whoever approaches an artistic work has the clear awareness that he is entering a world different from that of common perception and practical life... The function that art fulfills results, moreover, from this appropriation of it, through which the human soul completes itself, exercising itself in a kind of activity that the rest of the world does not have the opportunity to determine.

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Science investigates and art contemplates. Contemplation is not opposed to research, but on the contrary, when it helps it free itself from the dictates of morality or when it provides the framework in which its results can be registered. The artistic spirit can therefore unite with the scientific one. Indeed, only their union gives the latter its entire fruitfulness.

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The work of art:... the mirror of the artist's soul... in it crystallizes the soul processes that developed in the artist during creation...

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The synthesis of the infinite with the finite, the eternal with the transient, and the ultimate reality with its appearance.

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A long attendance at art lends the soul new energies, deepening the experience and enriching the fantasy. Art is also sought after for the undeniable human superiority that attending it can lend to someone...

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In front of the aesthetic object, man transcends his singularity and becomes available to the human universe.

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Because there is art, there can be a better society, a nobler moral life, a more complete, deeper, truer science. The philosophical meaning of art completes it, for those who know how to understand that in its harmony is configured the very glorious destiny of the spirit.

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What constitutes the sovereign value of art and the beautiful is their situation in a world that is not entirely artistic and beautiful, and in which they are called upon to rest and regenerate us from the strains of practical life and the toils and struggles of truth and good. Only their alternation and contrast with other goods gives them their supreme value.

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Beauty is a stopping of the moment, it is the intense tasting of the rich fruit that the moment can bring us. Beauty is intrinsic... However, this is not the case with truth and goodness. Moral value is always asserted in relation to a purpose that serves someone, which by its existence transcends the very moment in which the value is embodied or felt... So it is with theoretical value, with truth. A truth is precious because it means a new stage, a gain of research, which can give a support point for further research. Truths add up, add up, grow, on their steps we move further, higher and further, as is not the case with intrinsic values, which cannot be added to each other, each representing a complete universe, a closed finality.

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We say that a finding is true when it is not contradicted by other conclusions of experience or intelligence. An opinion becomes true when it can be unified, coordinated, harmonized in the general plane of intelligence.