We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed. — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
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… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
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… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the yet unborn but is… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
“(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
It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything. — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
