Quotes by Ioan Slavici

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Art has a purpose, the condensing of life and its clarification, and whoever would be content to reproduce it would be making a big, huge mistake.

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They say that art has no nationality. Works of universal value are, however, a kind of synthesis of national cultural development.

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In our cultural development we will reach stability and unity only if we take into account in all our works the taste of the people, their way of seeing and feeling, their nature.