All Ilya Ehrenburg Quotes
- You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. Asphalt
- Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German… Aged
- 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!… All
- Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old… Beseech
- Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. Character
- Every master knows that the material teaches the artist. Artist
- Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart. According
- 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… Alive
- There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech. Freedom
- We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism… All
- 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 will… All
- Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young… All
- Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything. Advantage
- There is no progress in art. Art
- People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems. Deny