Quotes by Liviu Rebreanu

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For me art - I say "art" and I always think only of literature - means creation of people and life...

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The true artist must organically appropriate everything that has been produced of value in his field up to his own and add to it what he has... This addition, this addition, is true modernism, which would be valuable regardless of whether it appears in a romantic chlamy, in a realistic coat or in symbolic lace. It is not the labels that are decisive in art, but the aesthetic value.

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The true, precious modernism means the zeal to produce aesthetic values ​​dressed in the spirit of the time, but with a higher level than the previous era...

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Literature is the magic filter that selects the essence of the qualities and defects of a nation, that awakens its national consciousness and keeps it alive, that fixes a nation on a certain land.

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Sincerity is the chief quality of the true writer. Sincerity to oneself, from which springs sincerity to art. If you do not give yourself entirely to art, in the moment of creation, you will only create lifeless monsters.

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By creating living people, with their own life, with their own world, the writer approaches the mystery of eternity.

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Literature, in whatever form it appears, means not only a painting, but also an interpretation and therefore in a way a more or less direct criticism of the world and the society in which the writer lives.

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Art is not meant to moralize man, obviously, but it can make him rejoice because he is human and because he lives, and even make him more human.

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Literary creation can only be synthesis. The man I am painting will have and must have similarities with thousands of people, as all people have in life, but he lives only by what he has unique and different from all people of all times.

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Creating life does not mean copying existing individuals by nature. Such realism or naturalism is less valuable than a bad photograph...

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It is not beauty, a human invention, that interests art, but the pulsation of life. When you have managed to put into words a few moments of real life, you have done a work more precious than all the phrases in the world...

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If you look at art as creation, you must also assign it an ethical value. Art as a light toy would be as incomprehensible as life considered pointless.