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Scheduled as Daily Quote: 1909-10-14
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The work of art is authentic only when the person who receives it cannot imagine anything other than what he sees, hears or understands. When the one who receives it goes through a state similar to remembering, as if it had existed once before, and not once, I knew this long ago, only I did not know how to express myself, and here my self was shown to me. Especially when he feels that what he hears, sees, understands cannot be otherwise, but must be exactly as it is received. But if the receiver feels that what the artist shows him can be different, he sees the artist, he sees his pleasure, then it is not art.

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The work of art is authentic only when the person who receives it cannot imagine anything other than what he sees, hears or understands. When the one who receives it goes through a state similar to remembering, as if it had existed once before, and not once, I knew this long ago, only I did not know how to express myself, and here my self was shown to me. Especially when he feels that what he hears, sees, understands cannot be otherwise, but must be exactly as it is received. But if the receiver feels that what the artist shows him can be different, he sees the artist, he sees his pleasure, then it is not art.

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Romanian

"Opera de artă e autentică numai atunci când cel care o receptează nu-și poate imagina altceva decât vede, aude sau înțelege. Când cel care o receptează trece printr-o stare asemănătoare aducerii aminte, ca și cum ea ar mai fi existat cândva, și nu o dată, știam demult asta, doar că nu știam cum să mă exprim și iată ca mi s-a arătat sinele meu. Mai ales când simte că ce aude, vede, înțelege nu poate fi altfel, ci trebuie să fie exact așa cum e receptat. Dacă însă receptorul simte că ce-i arată artistul poate fi și altfel, îl vede pe artist, vede bunul lui plac, atunci nu-i vorba de artă."

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