"We know that art is connected with the……" — 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. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair."
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Ilya Ehrenburg
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15 Quotes by Ilya Ehrenburg
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or…
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Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the…
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Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German…
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.
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Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.
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It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has…
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There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
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It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as…
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Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of…
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Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.
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