“Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.” WayInspirationalArtPhilosophyMovingFormDiesLiteratureGivenLinesCirclesMechanismCompassObesityStraight LinesEntropyLifeless Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.” ChildrenPhilosophyAsksAbsolutesComplexesPhilosopherNakedCoveredCreedsDogmaSmallestLeafsFigs Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.” InspirationalArtPhilosophyLiteratureAnswersAliveTruth IsMachinesErrorsValuableMistaken Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether old or the very latest and revolutionary, and turn to artistically realized philosophy.” InspirationalArtPhilosophyTurnsLiteratureModernPaintingRevolutionaryDaily LifeRealistic Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and science. In his own field - though, of course, on a proportionately lesser scale - Wells may be likened to Dostoyevsky, who took the form of the cheap detective novel and infused it with brilliant psychological analysis.” InspirationalWellsMayArtPhilosophyFormValuesCoursesLiteratureSocialNovelFieldsAdventureElementsIntellectualRaisedBrilliantScalesPsychologicalAnalysisDetectivesAdoptingDostoyevsky Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose social ideals are the same as those we live by; a philosophy of the divinity of man, of fervent faith in man - the faith that moves mountains.” MenInspirationalYearsArtPhilosophyProblemMovingLiteratureSocialMountainIdealsDivinityRemoveLive ByFerventSocial ProblemsMove MountainsChekhov Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.” WayArtPhilosophyFormGivenArt IsDestroying Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
