You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through..

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 nu….

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 wor….

Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the G….

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech..

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

Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than….

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything..

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..

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 be written after ….

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him..

There is no progress in art..

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 novel nowadays cannot resemb….

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 - wipe th….

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist..

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