We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art.… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything,… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
“But what is extraordinary is that Modigliani's models resemble each other; it is not a matter of an assumed style or some superficial trick of painting, but of the artist's view of the world. Zborowski with the face of a good-natured, shaggy sheepdog; the lost Soutine; the tender Jeanne in her shift, an old man, a model, somebody with a… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century,… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share
Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the yet unborn but is evil! Follow the precepts of Comrade Stalin. Stamp out the fascist beast once and for all in its lair! Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty.… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share
“(Modigliani liked Baudelaire's poem about the albatross being mocked by sailors: 'Ce voyageur ailé, comme il est gauche et veule!')” — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart. — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
