Art is an anti-destiny... the whole history of art should be a history of liberation.
Art lives only in eternal renewal. The artist who fails to free himself from the shackles of those who preceded him, and to find in the depth of his own personality a new form of manifestation of beauty, deserves his name less than the one who, even defeated, tried to reach such an ideal.
Whoever is against the trend in art is also against the orientation towards progress.
Only art can give weight to a life that would otherwise be bored to death by convenience.
A great art is that which, outside of time and its own grandiose evolution within itself, is able to create a special history for itself in history.
The future will see... an art without suffering, healthy in soul, devoid of solemnity, of sadness, but not of trust, an art per tu with humanity.
In the end, art - always - will remove the appearance of art.
Art is one of the many humanistic disciplines, all of which - philosophy, law, medicine, theology and even the natural sciences or technology - are in turn only different hypotheses, variations of one and those than different hypotheses, variations of one and the same sublime and interesting problems, to which we can never relate sufficiently varied, sufficiently nuanced, for she is man, creature, human.
The only posthumous glory I wish for my work is that it can be said to affirm life, even though it knows death.
Although the artist may remain throughout his life more attached, not to say more faithful, to his childhood than the man bent on the practical reality of life, although, it could be said that, unlike the latter, he remains constantly in the state of dreaminess, of the playful human purity of the child, yet his path, from the immaculate beginnings to the unpredictable later stages of his destiny, is infinitely wider, more adventurous, and, to a spectator, more jarring than that of the bourgeois some, and for the latter the thought that he was once a child is not nearly as tearful.
Poetry and literature in general must propose as a useful end, truth as subject, and the interesting as means.
If you want to be a poet, you must first feel sincere feelings; then, at length, to study the expression; your hand, then, must be as pure as your spirit... Be no one's slave... Never betray the Holy Truth!... never be prevenient with vices, nor with irony towards virtues.
A culture does not have a Robinsonian destiny, it develops in a wider context, no one can make an exception from this reality, especially in the last century...
The interdependence of phenomena, the obvious connection between the various areas of culture, does not imply the elimination of independence, but, on the contrary, its understanding as an integral part of the totality...
National specificity is not a locked door to the world, on the contrary, it is the only window open to the world and the only chance for recognition, as partners with equal rights, in the great forum of peoples' culture. We will never impose ourselves by imitating others, but by convincing others of the creative power of our spirit...
Obviously, peoples learn from each other, an autarky cannot be conceived, but the final product of each people's cultural efforts must bear the strong stamp of originality to be taken seriously...
Literature... as a special manifestation of the human spirit, is fundamentally revolutionary in the sense that it rejects the outdated templates and pontifications of people's thinking, making room for boldness and the renewing message, opening wide the perspectives of the human mind...
In the field of literature, every creator of genius must enrich the human spiritual universe with something unknown to him, which bears the seal of his unique individuality.
Literature is not a moral treatise... but it cannot be separated from moral goals, in a very broad sense and, of course, not expressly...
Not once have writers sacrificed themselves for the ideas they believed in... The martyrdom of so many writers, from so many literatures, is nothing but an aspect of their militancy. Indifference, apathy, passivity, transactional practices have never honored literature...
The militancy of the great writers inevitably enters into the essence of their art, and, in this sense, only one observation can be the decisive argument: the great creators have always militated in the service of the high ideas of their time, and some have preceded them, paving the way for the times we...
The writer, through his work, appears as a representative sample of the collective feeling that is always recognized in him, which he takes as a point of reference to define himself and which he can present as a business card in front of humanity. ..
In the work of the great writers, the people recognize their own voice, their own history, sensibility and moral values...
It seems that in art man has succeeded in giving from the beginning the maximum measure of his possibilities. The availability of sensibility and spiritual capacity have fully manifested themselves from remote antiquity until today, and it is instructive to note that, for example, if in the technical field the evolution of man is miraculous, in that of the titanic arts of antiquity or the Renaissance there remain some permanent models in which the spirit ours is related and will always linger with the same awe and delight…
It obviously does not follow from the above that everything that was created in culture before us keeps its value intact. The history of culture retained, from an immense crowd of authors, a limited number, namely those who managed to raise thinking and sensitivity to the highest heights, to give the fullest expression to man's creative dispositions.
In the context of socialist relations, the relationship between tradition and innovation takes on a special ideological and artistic importance. Because socialism cultivates respect for the progressive values of the past and, at the same time, the aspiration to enrich and develop the heritage of national values by creating new works, related to the spirit of the present, to the needs and desires of contemporary man...
Distinguishing between advanced traditions and the noxious, retrograde elements of the legacy of the past, the contemporary writer creates a wide field of action for new ideas and feelings, dressed in contemporary clothes, commensurate with the sensibility of today's man...
A writer must feel the pulse of contemporaneity, know the current reality, be receptive to the new moral values that are being created, in order to depict them, in depth, in his work.
It is hard to believe that there was or is a true writer, not only in our literature, but in the literature of the world, who wrote without the aim, unconfessed, sometimes unconsciously, of ameliorating the condition of his fellows, of cultivating their feelings, ideals, attitudes, principles, etc.
The truth of art is the liberation of sensibility by reconciling it with reason...