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…

- 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 German - wipe th…

- Ilya Ehrenburg

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…

- Ilya Ehrenburg

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

- Ilya Ehrenburg

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

- Ilya Ehrenburg

There is no progress in art.

- Ilya Ehrenburg

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

- 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 the novel nowadays cannot resemb…

- Ilya Ehrenburg

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

- Ilya Ehrenburg