Quotes by Mihai Ralea

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The artist is one individual and the audience is humanity. He always generalizes and enriches the work of art. It makes it valid, interesting for as many people as possible, always pointing out new meanings, aspects and intentions. Thus he humanizes it by collaborating with the author. He gives us a pattern and we complete it, he gives us a vessel that we fill and empty from generation to generation.

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The extension of unsuspected meanings that give life and posterity to art is made by the public with its imagination. He credits the author with his original idea. Various meanings he hadn't thought of…

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Pushing things to their paradoxical aspect, we could say that a work lives mainly through what the artist did not want, through the elements he did not highlight. Opera lives somewhat against him...

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If the work of art contained only one idea, it would die quickly, i.e. with the disappearance of the author, who would bury his conception with him... On the contrary, a creation is all the more valid the more subtexts it brings , more unconscious virtualities, more secondary wills other than the unique one of the doer and, up to a point, opposed to it.

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A work is always much richer than its creator thinks or wants. It includes, without his will, possibilities of associations, suggestions, mental exercises other than those he indicated. She has affinities that bind beyond the creator's original will; hidden meanings that he doesn't even suspect...

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Any work contains, more or less, a central intention and a lot of unconscious meanings, of unenhanced virtues but ready to be realized, it carries with it, repressed or only half expressed, so many meanings that come from the subconscious of the artist, unforeseen and for him...

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Literature fills in what society lacks, fills gaps, balances aspirations.

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The novel is the story of the life and soul of the most characteristic private individuals. Public individuals are captured by history and mythology. The novel only appears in such a differentiated society where every man is an individuality in his own way.

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Here, then, the artist, although a passionate amateur of specificity, cannot completely refrain from expressing through his work the general... But, ... the artist cannot use expressions valid for any society, he cannot be completely universal ... If it were so, it would lose its particularity, its originality. Art would turn into science, expression would become a mathematical formula…

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By purpose, art becomes social, because it addresses the public, and by origin, it is already social, because the education of the artist can only be that of the environment in which he lives...

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Success is an essential condition for the development of that intimate optimism in our forces, in our capabilities. In order to be successful, i.e. to be selected by the society in which you live, it is necessary to enroll at any cost in a certain type...

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In all ages, the tendency of progressive mankind is to attribute success directly to objective social values, above moral values. However, this tendency is not fully realized until the socialist society, after the disappearance of the exploiting social classes and their retinue of imaginations, illusions and hypocrisies.