Quotes by Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea

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Any honest and truly artistic work that ennobles people's feelings and reflects a society as it is, serves the aspirations of socialism, which is not just a political party in the usual sense of the word, but an ideal, an aspiration for a better world.

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Art is a historical product, demarcating the animal era from the human one.

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Social ideas and tendencies are the very warm and nourishing blood that nourishes and makes alive the organism called Art.

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A poet-artist does not live in the world of abstract conceptions but, more than anyone else, in the whirlwind of social life with its affects, its feelings, its hate and its love, with the struggle of special interests.

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Art, like any manifestation of the human mind, is the product of the natural and especially social environment, it bears the stamp of the time in which it was created, of the society in which it was produced.

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Nothing gnaws at the soul more terribly and drains it than trouble and misery, the food usually only of exhausted or on the verge of exhausting individualities. Nothing is higher than whole-hearted praise, and nothing more fruitful for the soul than full admiration for that which has in one way or another reached perfection.

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From the clash of ideas comes the spark of truth.

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A discovery, a theoretical truth, must sooner or later make its way into human consciousness, however much those whose interests are threatened by the new theory may object. This spreading and penetration is done by virtue of the very intrinsic power that a truth has.