Quotes by Alexandru Vlahuță

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Art is also one of the forms that life takes on...

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To know how to extract the secret of this great life, which circulates throughout nature and whose pulse beats everywhere, to know how to extract what is emotional even from what seems indifferent to us, to know how to capture the steady logic and universal harmony in this disorder of aspects, which makes us dizzy and troubled, is to have the eyes and feeling of an artist.

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And, indeed, it is not the views of nature and life that are the object of art, but the intimate meaning of these views, the soul and harmony that emerges even from things that seem to us dead and devoid of any order...

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Only art has the faculty of choice in its creation. Nature why can. The artist gives what he wants as much as he can. This is why it has been rightly said that art corrects nature...

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The artist presents us the world, the life seen and lived by him, through the so-called temperamental prism of his...

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The poetry of life: it is obvious that every thing has its secret touch of poetry, its song. To feel it is a great gift... To clear a smile from the beauty of this world and give it eternal expression, to untie from the chaos of time the moment through which one can look into eternity is not to increase with it the light, the charm, the powers of human life ?

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Art springs and breathes from the air of the age in which it is born. The artist is the result, or rather, the synthesis of the general spirit of the society in which he lives.

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The sunbeam that warms you is not diminished by the fact that it also warms your neighbor.

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The envious suffer from the success of others as a humiliation as an unforgivable offense to their weakness.

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Admiration is not only wonder. It also includes a sense of esteem, springing from valuing the powers deployed, the difficulties overcome, the results achieved, and this is its moral and uplifting element.

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Beware of the liar who mixes a little truth into his lies.