The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“If [modern artists] hadn’t lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it).… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The social revolution is only one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow… But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Homo sapiens is only man, in the fullest sense of the word, when his grammar contains no question marks, only exclamation marks, commas, and… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Do you know this feeling? When you're in an aero speeding up through a blue spiral, the window open, the wind whistling, and there's… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“No, I did not understand. But I nodded silently. I was dissolved, I was infinitely small, I was a point... There is, after all,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul." A soul? That strange, ancient, long-forgotten word. We sometimes use the words "soul-stirring,"… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“But how was I going to explain my whole being, this whole disease that I've been jotting down in these pages? So I shut… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
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