Quotes by Nicolae Tonitza

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An artist who does not have moments of heartbreaking discouragement, the artist who does not go through times when he thinks he is "uncalled" - is not a true artist.

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Art is the educator of our sensibility; she can also be the instructor of our mind, on one condition: not to deprive us of delight.

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By sincere artist I mean the artist whose ideal remains the same: undisputed harmony between the creation and the soul from which it originates.

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In art, form is never perfect by itself, but by what it succeeds in expressing.

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In art, matter and ideal are one: they cannot be separated.

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In art as in nature, whatever embodies a harmony, before which both our senses and our thinking remain in a serene moment of aesthetic repose, may be immoral.