Cesare Pavese on Art
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Cesare Pavese, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Cesare Pavese, entry #7510: "We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites."
Attributed to Cesare Pavese, entry #235816: "He told them it was only dogs that bark and go for strange dogs, and men set on a dog because it suits them to show that they are still masters, but if the dogs weren't dumb anima…"
4 Quotes by Cesare Pavese on Art
"We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites."
"He told them it was only dogs that bark and go for strange dogs, and men set on a dog because it suits them to show that they are still masters, but if the dogs weren't dumb animals they would come to an agreements with each other and start barking at them."
"War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values."
"When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves."