Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Oleg Karavaychuk

Quote by Oleg Karavaychuk

“Vāgners ir fantastiska parādība. Tās ir teknes cauri Visumam, kurā visi augi atmirdz kā spogulī, taču laižot cauri teknei ūdeni, saprotat? Lūk, tāda noteka no pasauļu Visuma. Aiz tās jau zvaigznes, eņģeļi, bet aiz eņģeļiem – normāli cilvēki.”

Quote by Oleg Karavaychuk

Author

Oleg Karavaychuk

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Oleg Karavaychuk. more

You May Also Like

“But, of course, the real villain is Wagner. He has done more than any man in the nineteenth century towards the muddling of arts. I do feel that music is in a very serious state just now, though extraordinarily interesting. Every now and then in history there do come these terrible geniuses, like Wagner, who stir up all the wells of thought at once. For a moment it’s splendid. Such a splash as never was. But afterwards—such a lot of mud; and the wells—as it were, they communicate with each other too easily now, and not one of them will run quite clear. That’s what Wagner’s done.”

“Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. I am weary, even more than I am ashamed, of seeing such things. Nowadays people are as good as born in their clothes, and there is practically not a nude human being in existence. An artist, therefore, as you must candidly confess, cannot sculpture nudity with a pure heart, if only because he is compelled to steal guilty glimpses at hired models. The marble inevitably loses its chastity under such circumstances. An old Greek sculptor, no doubt, found his models in the open sunshine, and among pure and princely maidens, and thus the nude statues of antiquity are as modest as violets, and sufficiently draped in their own beauty. But as for Mr. Gibson's colored Venuses (stained, I believe, with tobacco juice), and all other nudities of to-day, I really do not understand what they have to say to this generation, and would be glad to see as many heaps of quicklime in their stead.”