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Art Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the…
- Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear…
- The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man…
- Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!
- We will die, but art will remain.
- Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions…
- Who will dare say he has defined art?
- The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the…
- The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even…
- Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
- Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
- The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
- Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly -…
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- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov