Artist Quotes by Boris Pasternak

“Happy are the downtrodden.”

— Boris Pasternak

“The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the time. It was impossible to imagine that…

— Boris Pasternak

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we…

— Boris Pasternak

She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

— Boris Pasternak

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues…

— Boris Pasternak

I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution,…

— Boris Pasternak

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is…

— Boris Pasternak

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it.…

— Boris Pasternak

“I'll stay with you a little, my unforgettable delight, for as long as my arms and my hands and my lips remember you. I'll…

— Boris Pasternak

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to…

— Boris Pasternak

I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to…

— Boris Pasternak

“But sometimes, to enable her to bear her life, she needed the accompaniment of an inward music and she could not always compose it…

— Boris Pasternak

“We’ve been lucky. The autumn happened to be dry and warm. We managed to dig the potatoes before the rain and cold set in.…

— Boris Pasternak

Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

— Boris Pasternak

“As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is delight in…

— Boris Pasternak