“It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.” InspirationalMeanArtEndsMovingArtistLiteratureSpeakGoalRolesMankindReaderTasksRidiculousIronyPatheticSpecialistsCarried AwayPathos Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.” MindMeanCultureLiteratureGoalHighestPeace Of MindPietyPious Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.” ThinkingWritingLooksMayBookEndsLiteratureGoalPerfectPaperPagesPerfectionUnattainableMay Not Be Perfect Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
“I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.” ArtBookSchoolPoliticalLiteratureGoalWrittenDefinedIdeological Author:Aleksandar Hemon