Quotes by Ion Agârbiceanu

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All true creation is an enhancement of life.

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The civilized but uneducated man, in the sense I have shown, with modern means of destruction, is incomparably more dangerous than the cave dwellers with their stone axes.

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This humanization of man is strictly necessary to go hand in hand with increasing the means of civilization...

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Art makes man more human, more humane, more in control of his primal instincts, and thus more apt to humanize his life and that of society...

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Artistic creation is a means of culture, not civilization. It awakens and strengthens the spiritual powers of man, and thereby contributes to his perfection...

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There is no conscious artist who does not know what he wants when he works on a work of art. If the so-called tendency in art is reduced to this conscious will, there is no work of art without tendency.

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A literary work that adds nothing to our thought, to our feeling and will, to our enjoyment of life, I think is written in vain, read in vain.

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Literary creation requires talent, sincerity, honesty; of the intense experience of the writer in the upheavals of his contemporary society, of the deep sympathy, out of conviction, towards the light sides of those upheavals, or of equally deep antipathy towards its shadow sides.

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For a writer, the ideal would be that he, as a human being, never lags behind what he has achieved artistically. The man and the author go hand in hand. Let the individual life of man cover that of the hero he gives us as an example.

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(The writer) is a more sensitive and vibrant chord of the people's soul, and can more strongly express the aspirations of society, feeling more deeply the virtues that can raise a people, and the weaknesses that can hold it in place or bring it down.