Quotes by Vladan Desnica

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A truly great artist is only one who unites in himself a great intelligence, a great spirit and a great talent. Someone who is small as a person cannot be a great artist.

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More or less, any great work of literary art is, in one way or another, a case of conscience, and literary activity is nothing but a permanent examination of conscience. In this lies its value, because only such a lyrical-psychological examination, and not a purely intellectual, ethical, sociological or I know how else, shakes, awakens, sets something in motion, there, in the intimate and deep forum of man . But the ability to carry out this synthesis of great intelligence, great spirit and great talent is naturally given only to the great.

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Banality is the death of art. Only one thing can be worse than her: the sought-after originality.

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It is only through the force of circumstances that we are convinced with certainty of a missed thing; only failure can edify us surely and definitively. Which is in a way equivalent to saying that, in anything, to reach certainty you have to go all the way. That is, until failure. In other words, only failure completes, gives meaning to our life, only failure crowns our work. To stop, to barricade yourself at a point other than this, may mean not exhausting your possibilities, not fully realizing yourself.