Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is no longer… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were being shaken… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
