Quotes by Ilia Grigorievici Ehrenburg

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Put poetry in the most insignificant actions of your life, not only in stanzas on paper, and you will rise. Write only when your heart is too full and let it pour out in rhythm and cadence. Let the brain help the heart. Let the mind guide the soul.

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What is art for?... First of all, for the education of feelings. Of course, man is educated by science, work, family, and the environment, but without art it is difficult to remove indifference, to awaken his beautiful feelings, to root out the ugly ones. Science develops in man the ability to think, and art sensitizes him.

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It would be the death of art if all the successors of an artist forced themselves to follow the procedures of the "great master".

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What is important in art is, strictly speaking, neither reality as it presents itself, nor the special way of feeling of the artist, but his special way of knowing how to embody apart from his feeling...