Asphalt Quote by Ilya Ehrenburg

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

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

“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

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

— Ilya Ehrenburg

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

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

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

There is no progress in art.

— Ilya Ehrenburg

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

— Ilya Ehrenburg

“(Modigliani liked Baudelaire's poem about the albatross being mocked by sailors: 'Ce voyageur ailé, comme il est gauche et veule!')”

— Ilya Ehrenburg

Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

— Ilya Ehrenburg

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