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When I say ART, I don't understand the "art for art's sake" theory. This useless doctrine has come to denote the work of a powerless man who produces empty elegance in a sterilized room. I understand only the spiritual category made up of good works of art, past or present, those that serve as a model, those that will be exemplary... If we look at the consequences triggered by these works we will see that they are not at all alien to the struggles and passions of the time. "The great artist", it has been said, "does not belong to his time, he is his time" basically, the life of the poet, the complex of impressions, sensations, reactions that constitute the material of the work, are a part of the humanity that surrounds him; along with her anxieties, her pains, her greatness and her failures.

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When I say ART, I don't understand the "art for art's sake" theory. This useless doctrine has come to denote the work of a powerless man who produces empty elegance in a sterilized room. I understand only the spiritual category made up of good works of art, past or present, those that serve as a model, those that will be exemplary... If we look at the consequences triggered by these works we will see that they are not at all alien to the struggles and passions of the time. "The great artist", it has been said, "does not belong to his time, he is his time" basically, the life of the poet, the complex of impressions, sensations, reactions that constitute the material of the work, are a part of the humanity that surrounds him; along with her anxieties, her pains, her greatness and her failures.

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Romanian

"Când spun ARTĂ, nu înțeleg teoria „artei pentru artă”. Această doctrină care nu mai servește la nimic, a sfârșit prin a desemna munca unui neputincios care produce eleganța goală într-o cameră sterilizată. Înțeleg numai categoria spirituală constituită din operele de artă bune, trecute ori prezente, acelea care servesc de model, acelea care vor fi exemplare... Dacă privim consecințele declanșate de aceste opere vom vedea că ele nu sunt deloc străine de luptele și pasiunile timpului. „Marele artist”, s-a spus, „nu aparține timpului său, este timpul său” în fond, viața poetului, complexul de impresii, senzații, reacții care constituie materia operei, sunt o parte a umanității care îl înconjoară; împreună cu neliniștile, cu durerile, cu măreția și cu eșecurile ei."

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