Quotes by Pompiliu Eliade

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Each artistic creation therefore involves three moments: the moment of external reality, the moment of the artist's inspiration, the moment of execution...

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What an artist expresses through colors, through sounds, through stone, through words, are less his personal emotions than the emotions of the entire audience. He must therefore guard against everything that is exclusively individual in his soul, why he does not find any kind of representative in the souls of others...

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It is not enough for the artist to make us know his way of feeling, through his external creation; his work must also be felt, tasted by the public, it must awaken in the soul of others the emotions of the artist himself... Art is a soul correspondence between the artist and the public.

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Feeling and form, here are the two essential, indispensable elements of any art, of any literary production, and when a work knows how to bring them together, the rest is of little interest to us, the author is free to support and fight all the truths he likes .

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A drama, a novel, a lyric piece, a work of eloquence must make us know the state of mind of those who produced them and put on an external form as perfect as possible...

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To idealize life, isn't it the only acceptable form of realism?... To romanticize life, isn't it the only acceptable form of classicism?

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The truth of art is eternal, of history ephemeral.

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Art cannot be, in any case, as it has been claimed, a faithful copy of reality... It is an emphasis of reality in all that it has more typical, more eternal, more true; it's choosing and highlighting what is more general, more permanent.

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The work is... the individual reality soaked in the soul, in the personality of the artist... An incarnation (or, if you like, a sensible embodiment apart from the artist, which represents in itself, merged, the two individualities...: the outer individuality, that inspired the artist, and the individuality or personality of the artist…

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Art is made for the public and must be understood by the public. Any good work of art is intimate and somewhat pedagogical at the same time. It represents, merged in itself... external reality, the feeling of the artist and the feeling of all mankind.