…from the work of A. S. Griboedov "Woe from Wit"

happy hours are not watching. (Sofia's words

I would be glad to serve, it is sickening to serve. (Chatsky's words)

Fresh legend, but hard to believe. (Chatsky's words)

Houses are new, but prejudices are old. (Chatsky's words)

And who are the judges? (Chatsky's words)

Oh, gossips scarier than guns. (Molchalin's words)

Ba! familiar faces! (Famusov's words)

Where is better? (Conversation between Sofia and Chatsky)

Where we are not.

…from the fables of I. A. Krylov

And Vaska listens and eats. ("The Cat and the Cook"

And the casket just opened. ( "Larchik")

The trouble is, if the cobbler starts the pies,

And boots to stitch a pieman. ("Pike and Cat")

Take care of what you belong to

If you want to have a successful end in business. ("Starling")

Yes, only things are still there. ( "Swan, Pike and Cancer")

How many people find happiness

Only the fact that they walk well on their hind legs. ("Two dogs")

When there is no agreement among comrades,

Their business will not go well. ("Swan, Pike and Cancer")

Even though you're in new skin

Yes, you have the same heart. (“The Peasant and the Snake” (“The Snake crawled into the Peasant ...”)

Do not spit in the well - it will come in handy

Drink water. ("The Lion and the Mouse")

The strong always blame the powerless. ("The Wolf and the Lamb")

Like a squirrel in a wheel. ("Squirrel")

Disservice. ("The Hermit and the Bear")

Snout in fluff. ("The Fox and the Marmot")

A helpful fool is more dangerous than an enemy. ("The Hermit and the Bear")

…from poems by K. N. Batyushkov

O you who know how to love,

Be afraid to anger love with separation!

("Elegy from Tibullus")

There is an end to wanderings - never to sorrows!

("Memories")

O memory of the heart! you are stronger

The mind of a sad memory.

("My genius")

Pray with hope and tears...

Everything earthly perishes... both glory and crown...

("Dying Tass")

…from the poems of N. M. Karamzin

Nothing is new under the sun. ("Experienced Solomon's Wisdom, or Selected Thoughts from Ecclesiastes")

…from the works of A. S. Pushkin

You cannot harness a Horse and a quivering doe into one cart. ( poem "Poltava")

Love for all ages. ("Eugene Onegin")

We all learned little by little

Something and somehow. ("Eugene Onegin")

broken trough. ("Tales of the Fisherman and the Fish")

From the ship to the ball. ("Eugene Onegin")

Reading is the best teaching. (quote from a letter from A. S. Pushkin to his brother)

…from the works of I. S. Turgenev

Great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language. (poem in prose "Russian language")

… from the works of A.P. Chekhov

Twenty-two misfortunes.( play " The Cherry Orchard»)

To the grandfather's village. (story "Vanka")

Everything should be beautiful in a person: face, clothes, soul, and thoughts. (play "Uncle Vanya")

… from the works of L. N. Tolstoy

Living Dead. (drama "The Living Corpse")

…from the works of M. Yu. Lermontov

Forget and fall asleep! (poem "I go out alone on the road")

And boring, and sad, and there is no one to give a hand to. (poem "And boring and sad")

All this would be funny

When would not be so sad. ("A. O. Smirnova")

…from the works of N. V. Gogol

And the rope on the road will come in handy. ( comedy "The Inspector"

…from the poems of A. A. Blok

And fight again! Rest only in our dreams. (poem "On the Kulikovo field")

…from poems by N. A. Nekrasov

How did you get to this life? ("Miserable and elegant")

You may not be a poet

But you have to be a citizen. (poem "Poet and Citizen")

…from the works of M. Gorky

One who is born to crawl cannot fly. ("Songs about the Falcon")

…from poems S. A. Yesenina

Everything will pass like smoke from white apple trees. ("I do not regret, do not call, do not cry…")

…from the poems of F. I. Tyutchev

Oh how deadly we love

As in the violent blindness of passions

We are the most likely to destroy

What is dear to our heart! ("Oh, how deadly we love")

Love is a dream, and a dream is a moment,

And sooner, late or awakening,

And a person should finally wake up ... (“In separation there is high value»)

Russia cannot be understood with the mind,

Do not measure with a common yardstick:

She has a special become -

One can only believe in Russia. (“You can’t understand Russia with the mind”)

We remember the brightest and famous quotes, thoughts, aphorisms prominent people about Russia and its people.

Alexander III the Peacemaker - Emperor of All Russia, Tsar of Poland and Grand Duke Finnish (1845-1894).

In the whole world we have only two faithful allies - our army and navy. All the rest, at the first opportunity, will take up arms against us.

When the Russian Tsar is fishing, Europe can wait.

Russia - for Russians and in Russian.

Nikolay Berdyaev - Great Russian philosopher (1874-1948)

The Russian people created the most powerful state in the world, greatest empire. From Ivan Kalita, Russia consistently and stubbornly gathered and reached dimensions that stagger the imagination of all the peoples of the world.

No creative historical path is possible without a primordial and spontaneous love for Russia. Our love for Russia, like any love, is arbitrary, it is not love for the qualities and virtues, but this love should be a source of creative creation of the qualities and virtues of Russia. Love for one's people must be creative love, creative instinct. And least of all it signifies enmity and hatred towards other peoples. The path to pan-humanity for each of us lies through Russia.

An infinitely difficult task faced the Russian people - the task of organizing and organizing their vast land. The immensity of the Russian land, the absence of borders and limits, were expressed in the structure of the Russian soul. The landscape of the Russian soul corresponds to the landscape of the Russian land: the same infinity, formlessness, aspiration to infinity, breadth.

Nikolay Gogol - Great Russian writer and playwright (1809-1852).

Thank God first of all for the fact that you are Russian. This path is now open for the Russian, and this path is Russia itself. If only he loves Russian Russia, he will love everything that is in Russia. God Himself is leading us to this love.

You don’t yet love Russia: you only know how to grieve and get irritated by rumors about everything bad that happens in it, all this produces in you only one callous annoyance and despondency. No, this is not yet love, you are far from love, it is only one too distant foreshadowing of it.

If there is only one Russian farmstead left, then Russia will be reborn.

Anton Denikin - Front Commander, general staff lieutenant general; later Acting Supreme Ruler of Russia on the part of the White Movement (1872-1947).

The Russian is not the one who bears the Russian surname, but the one who loves Russia and considers it his fatherland.

When peace rests over our poor country, and the all-healing time turns the bloody reality into the distant past, the Russian people will remember those who were the first to rise to defend Russia from the red scourge.

This is Russian, for Russians. When Russia is free, I will give everything to her.

Fedor Dostoevsky - Great Russian writer (1821-1881).

Is it possible that even here they will not allow and allow the Russian organism to develop nationally, by its organic strength, but certainly impersonally, servilely imitating Europe? But what to do with the Russian organism then? Do these gentlemen understand what an organism is? Separation, "split" from their country leads to hatred, these people hate Russia, so to speak, naturally, physically: for the climate, for the fields, for the forests, for the order, for the liberation of the peasant, for Russian history, in a word, for everything, for everything they hate.

The purpose of the Russian man is, no doubt, pan-European and worldwide. To become a real Russian, to become completely Russian, perhaps, and means only - to become a brother of all people, an all-man, if you like. Our inheritance is universality, and not acquired by the sword, but by the power of brotherhood and our fraternal striving for the reunification of people.

The highest and most feature of our people is a sense of justice and a thirst for it.

Mikhail Lomonosov - World-famous encyclopedic scientist, rector of the Academic University, academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and Arts in St. Petersburg (1711-1765).

The greatness, power and wealth of the entire state lies in the preservation and reproduction of the Russian people.

The beauty, grandeur, strength and richness of the Russian language are quite clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors did not know any rules for compositions, but they hardly thought that they exist or can be.

For the common good, and especially for the establishment of sciences in the fatherland, and against my own father, I don’t set up rebellion for sin ... I dedicated myself to this, so that until my grave I fight against the enemies of Russian sciences, as I have been fighting for twenty years, stood for them from a young age, I will not leave in my old age.

Fyodor Tyutchev - Great Russian poet and diplomat (1803-1873).

You can't understand Russia with the mind, You can't measure it with a common yardstick: She has a special become - In Russia, you can only believe.

If you meet a veteran of the Napoleonic army, remind him of his glorious past and ask who, among all the opponents who fought with him on the battlefields of Europe, was the most worthy of respect, who, after individual defeats, maintained a proud look: you can bet ten against one, what he will call you a Russian soldier. Go through the departments of France where the foreign invasion left its mark in 1814, and ask the inhabitants of these provinces which soldier in the detachments of the enemy troops constantly showed the greatest humanity, the highest discipline, the least hostility to civilians, unarmed citizens - you can put a hundred against one that they will call you a Russian soldier. And if you want to know who was the most unbridled and the most predatory - oh, this is no longer a Russian soldier.

Peter I the Great - The last tsar of all Russia and the first Emperor of All Russia (1672-1725).

I have a presentiment that the Russians someday, and perhaps in our lifetime, will shame the most enlightened peoples with their successes in the sciences, their tireless work and the majesty of firm and loud glory.

Russian one who loves Russia and serves it!

Alexander Pushkin - Great Russian poet (1799-1837)

Disrespect for ancestors is the first sign of savagery and immorality. It is not only possible, but also necessary, to be proud of the glory of one's ancestors; not to respect it is shameful cowardice.

I am far from delighted with everything that I see around me; ... but I swear on my honor that for nothing in the world I would not want to change my fatherland or have a different history than the history of our ancestors, such as God gave it to us.

Alexander Suvorov - Great Russian commander (1730-1800).

Who loves his Fatherland, he gives best example love for humanity.

Nature produced only one Russia. She has no rivals. We are Russians, we will overcome everything.

The fortress is strong, the garrison is a whole army. But nothing can stand against Russian weapons - we are strong and confident.

The Russian is distinguished by faith, fidelity and reason. In vain will all Europe move on Russia: it will find Thermopylae, Leonidas and its coffin there.

The Russian language is rightfully considered one of the richest languages ​​in the world. In our selection of quotes - statements, reflections of the great Russian classics of literature about the originality and greatness of the Russian language.

A.I. Kuprin

Russian language! For thousands of years the people have been creating this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent poetic ... instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future ... With a wondrous ligature, the people weaved an invisible web of the Russian language: bright, like a rainbow after the spring rain, well-aimed like arrows, sincere, like a song over a cradle, melodious ... A dense world , on which he threw a magic net of the word, submitted to him like a brimmed horse.

A.N. Tolstoy

Language is the history of the people. Language is the way of civilization and culture. Therefore, the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation with nothing to do, but an urgent need.

A.I. Kuprin

In days of doubt, in days of painful reflections on the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, O great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! Without you - how not to fall into despair at the sight of everything that happens at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!

I.S. Turgenev

The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy.
A.I. Kuprin

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, it is a property handed down to us by our predecessors! Treat this mighty weapon with respect; in the hands of the skilful, it is able to perform miracles.

I.S. Turgenev

There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.

K.G. Paustovsky

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is enriched with astonishing speed.

Maksim Gorky

You marvel at the treasures of our language: every sound is a gift; everything is granular, large, like pearls themselves, and really, another name is more precious than the thing itself.

N.V. Gogol

There is no word that would be so bold, brisk, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and trembling vividly, as the aptly spoken Russian word.

N.V. Gogol

Let there be honor and glory to our language, which, in its native richness, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud majestic river - it makes noise and thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, murmurs in a gentle stream and sweetly flows into the soul, forming everything measures which consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice!

N.M. Karamzin

Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilful writers, is rapidly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes according to the arbitrariness of everyone and everyone.

A.S. Pushkin

Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight the thought, to bring the words into the correct ratio and to give the phrase lightness and the right sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notation. They firmly hold the text and do not allow it to crumble.

K.G. Paustovsky

Use foreign word when there is a Russian word equivalent to it, it means to insult both common sense and common taste.

V.G. Belinsky

Only by assimilating the original material to the maximum possible perfection, that is, native language, we will be able to be in the same perfection

learn a foreign language, but not before.

F.M. Dostoevsky

Ugly, dissonant words should be avoided. I do not like words with an abundance of hissing and whistling sounds, I avoid them.

A.P. Chekhov

Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages ​​in its richness, strength, freedom of location, abundance of forms.

N.A. Dobrolyubov

The main character of our language lies in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, inner lyrical feelings, “mouse running around life”, a cry of indignation, sparkling pranks and amazing passion.

A.I. Herzen

Among the magnificent qualities of our language, there is one absolutely amazing and hardly noticeable. It consists in the fact that in its sound it is so diverse that it includes the sound of almost all languages ​​of the world.

K.G. Paustovsky

The natural richness of the Russian language and speech is so great that, without further ado, listening to the time with your heart, in close communication with common man and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket you can become an excellent writer.

MM. Prishvin

In the attitude of each person to his language, one can absolutely accurately judge not only his cultural level but also about its civic value.

K.G. Paustovsky

To deal with the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, inaccurately, incorrectly.

A.N. Tolstoy

But what disgusting bureaucratic language! Proceeding from that position… on the one hand… on the other hand, all this without any need. “Nevertheless” and “to the extent that” the officials composed. I read and spit.

A.P. Chekhov

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years countless treasures of human thought and experience have accumulated and live forever in the word.

M.A. Sholokhov

The Russian language is quite rich, however, it has its drawbacks, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vosh, -vosh, -vosh, -shcha, -shch. On the first page of your story, “lice” crawl in large numbers: those who worked, those who spoke, those who arrived. It is quite possible to do without insects.

Maksim Gorky

You can do wonders with the Russian language!

Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov, a popular satirist, was born in 1948 in Jurmala. Playwright, adopted and a member of the Writers' Union of Russia. Is the author a large number books. Among them are works of diverse genres - essays, notes and plays, stories.

Russian writer, literary critic, worked as a censor for a significant part of his life, contributing to the publication of the works of Turgenev, Nekrasov, Pisemsky. A native of Siberia, merchant parents, traveled a lot around the world. Working all his life as an official, he devoted everything free time literary creativity.

Modern Russian writer, philosopher, author of numerous essays, novels, stories and short stories awarded literary prizes. Engaged in Buddhist practices, leads a very secluded lifestyle, often travels to the East. Communicates with the public via the Internet, never appears at fashion events, being a native of Moscow. In 2001, he was recognized as the best foreign writer in Germany.

Main character novel by F.M. Dostoevsky. Being a strong and proud personality, under the pressure of complex life circumstances goes for a double murder, which he justified with the theory of "saving 100 lives at the cost of one life of a harmful pawnbroker." romantic and man pure soul, deeply experiencing violence even against animals, he is very worried about what happened.

World famous Russian writer, author of psychological deep works, which are read by people in different countries. Great connoisseur of the human soul, passions and weaknesses of people. Lived a life full of trials, but always believed that human soul triumph over violence and sinfulness.

Popular Russian writer, Japanese scientist, literary critic, translator, public figure. Their artistic literary works publishes under pseudonyms Boris Akunin, Anna Borisova and Anatoly Brusnikin. Akunin's quotes will be of interest to any person, as they are very wise and truthful.

WRITERS AND POETS ABOUT CREATIVITY

Know, artist, that simplicity and unity are needed in everything.
Horace (December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC), ancient Roman poet

Art consists in not being visible in a work of art.
Ovid (March 20, 43 BC - AD 17) - ancient Roman poet

Words that are born in the heart reach the heart, and those that are born on the tongue do not go beyond the ears.
Ibrahim Al Husri (c.990 - 1022), Arabic poet and philologist

Who thinks clearly, speaks clearly.
Nicolas Boileau (November 1, 1636 – March 13, 1711), French poet and critic

They vaguely write about what they vaguely imagine.
Mikhail Lomonosov(November 19, 1711 - April 15, 1765), Russian scientist and poet

The beautiful does not need additional decorations - most of all it is beautiful without decorations.
Johann Gottfried Herder (August 25, 1744 - December 18, 1803), German writer and cultural historian

Johann Wolfgang Goethe(August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832), German poet

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

In the depths of man lies creative power which is able to create what should be, which will not give us peace and rest until we express it outside of us in one way or another.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

No one knows what his powers are until he uses them.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Nature is always right. Mistakes and misconceptions come from people
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

What inspiration to wait long? The poet is the master of inspiration. He must command them.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

In every artist there is a sprout of boldness, without which not a single talent is conceivable.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

In any work of art, great or small, everything to the last detail depends on the idea.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Art is the medium of that which cannot be expressed.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Anyone who wants to reproach any author for being incomprehensible must first look inside himself to see if there is enough light inside of him. At dusk, the most distinct handwriting becomes unreadable.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Art is a mirror where everyone sees himself.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Every artist has courage, without which talent is unthinkable.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Technique combined with vulgarity is the most terrible enemy of art.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Beauty cannot be known, it must be felt or created.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Being human is an art.
Novalis (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), German writer and poet

Genius is, as it were, the soul of the soul; it is the relation between soul and spirit. The substratum or scheme of genius would be appropriately called an idol; an idol is the likeness of a person.
Novalis

To play is to experiment with chance.
Novalis
Theories are nets: only the one who casts them catches.
Novalis

Such are the poets, those rare birds of passage among us; they sometimes pass through our villages and everywhere renew the old great cult of mankind and its first gods, stars, spring, love, happiness, fertility, health and joy.
Novalis

Poetry, on the other hand, does not create anything outwardly tangible. In addition, she does not produce anything with her hands or external tools. Vision and hearing do not perceive poetry, because hearing words does not mean yet experiencing the spell of this mysterious art. It is all centered within.
Novalis

I want to say that in any poetic work, chaos must be seen through an even haze of coherence. The richness of creative invention becomes understandable and attractive only with a light presentation, while uniformity alone has an unpleasant dryness of arithmetic. Good poetry is the one that is close to us, and often the most mundane becomes its favorite content.
Novalis

In all forms of art it is necessary to experience those sensations that you want to evoke in others.
Frederic de Stendhal (January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842), French writer

I have never separated the artist from the thinker, just as I cannot separate art form from artistic thought.
Frederic de Stendhal

The third faculty of the soul after mind and will is creativity.
Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky (January 29, 1783 - April 12, 1852), Russian poet, translator, critic

To become a poet, you need to be in love or unhappy
Byron (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824), English poet

There are joys in every kind of creativity: the whole point is to be able to take your good where you find it.
Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850), French writer

There are joys in every kind of creativity: the whole point is to be able to take your good where you find it.
Honore de Balzac

The task of art is not to copy nature, but to express it. We must grasp the mind, meaning, appearance of things and beings.
Honore de Balzac

The service of the Muses does not tolerate fuss
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (June 6, 1799 - February 10, 1837), Russian poet and prose writer

Inspiration is not for sale, but you can sell the manuscript
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

As for the style, the simpler it is, the better it will be ... The main thing: truth, sincerity.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

To express your whole self in your creation - is there a greater triumph for the creator?
Victor Hugo (February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885), French writer

Music is the universal language of the world.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) American poet

Once you understand the nature of the writer himself, understanding his creations will not be difficult for you.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is hardly any higher pleasure than the pleasure of creating.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (April 1, 1809 - March 4, 1852), Russian and Ukrainian writer

You can't learn how to be creative. Does every artist have their own tricks? One can only imitate the highest methods, but this leads nowhere, and it is impossible to penetrate into the work of the creative spirit.
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (June 18, 1812 - September 27, 1891), Russian writer

The life of nature is continuous creativity, and although everything that is born in it dies, nothing perishes in it, is not destroyed, for death is birth.
Nikolai Stankevich (October 9, 1813 - July 27, 1840), Russian writer and poet

When love and skill come together, you can expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900) English writer and artist

Life without labor is shameful, labor without creativity is not worthy of man.
John Ruskin

Creativity ... is an integral, organic property of human nature ... It is a necessary belonging human spirit. It is just as legitimate in a person, perhaps, like two hands, like two legs, like a stomach. It is inseparable from man and constitutes a whole with him.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky(November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881), Russian writer and thinker

The need for beauty and creativity that embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it, man, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Art is such a need for a person as to eat and drink. The need for beauty and creativity that embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it, man, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

The greatest skill of a writer is to be able to cross out. Who knows how and who is able to cross out his own, he will go far. All great writers wrote extremely concisely. And most importantly - do not repeat what has already been said or already understood by everyone.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

If you start thinking about how to benefit from your writings, you are lost. You need to think only about art as such and about improving your own skills. Everything else is secondary.
Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880), French writer

You can't live by inspiration alone. Pegasus often walks than gallops. The whole talent is to make him walk in the gait you want.
Gustave Flaubert

The main virtue of a writer is knowing what not to write.
Gustave Flaubert

Every soul is measured by the immensity of its striving...
Gustave Flaubert

Art requires either solitude, or need, or passion.
Alexandre Dumas son (July 27, 1824 - November 27, 1895), French playwright and prose writer

In order to have all the grounds for creativity, it is necessary that your life itself be meaningful.
Henrik Ibsen (March 20, 1828 - May 23, 1906), Norwegian playwright

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910), Russian writer and thinker

Life is an ongoing creation. The difference is that it was created there, and it is created here. The tool is love. Its point is the mind.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Every art has two deviations from the path: vulgarity and artificiality.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Great objects of art are great only because they are accessible and understandable to everyone.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

A lot is needed for art, but the main thing is fire!
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

The main property in any art is a sense of proportion.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Any human creation, be it literature, music or painting, is always a self-portrait.
Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 – June 18, 1902), English writer and artist

Art has two most dangerous enemies: the craftsman who is not illuminated by talent and the talent who does not master the craft.
Anatole de France (April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924), French writer

A fine imagination is just as necessary for the historian as it is for the poet, for without imagination nothing can be seen, nothing can be understood.
Anatole France

A sense of proportion in art is everything.
Anatole France

Criticism requires much more culture than creativity.
Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900), English, Irish writer and poet

Those who are able to see in the beautiful its high meaning are cultured people. They are not hopeless. But the chosen one is the one who sees only one thing in beauty: Beauty.
Oscar Wilde

In every art there is something that lies on the surface, and a symbol. Whoever tries to penetrate deeper than the surface takes risks. And who reveals the symbol takes the risk.
Oscar Wilde

In essence, Art is a mirror that reflects the one who looks into it, and not life at all.
Oscar Wilde

The true secret of happiness is in the search for beauty.
Oscar Wilde

As one witty Frenchman said, women inspire us to do great things, but always prevent us from doing them.
Oscar Wilde

The good that art gives us is not in what we learn, but in what we become thanks to it.
Oscar Wilde

I never need to think in what form to express this or that thought, the words themselves come to me along with the thought; but I am very often forced to carefully consider a thought in order to express it more correctly; and as soon as I form a certain opinion, everything immediately turns out to be said by itself ... And when I try to play with words like bells, they stop coming.
George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950), English and Irish writer

My only policy is to forgive evil and do good. The most tragic thing in the world is a genius without honor
George Bernard Shaw

Where there is no will, there is no way.
George Bernard Shaw

If you have an apple and I have an apple, and if we exchange these apples, then you and I have one apple each. And if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw

Life is not a melting candle for me. It's like a miraculous torch that fell into my hands for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before passing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you want; you desire what you imagine; and finally, you create what you desire.
George Bernard Shaw

You will never write a good book without first writing a few bad ones.
George Bernard Shaw

The intelligent man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, progress always depends on the unintelligent.
George Bernard Shaw

My fame grew with each of my failures.
George Bernard Shaw

Many great truths were first blasphemy.
George Bernard Shaw

Development is a subconscious process that immediately stops when people start thinking about it.
George Bernard Shaw

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

People who succeed in this world are not lazy and look for the circumstances they need, and if they don’t find them, they create them.
George Bernard Shaw

You see things and you ask why? And I dream of things that never were, and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

The last thing I care about is whether I get published or not. Only the creative process matters. Everything else is just literature.
Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 - November 10, 1891), French poet

Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for him all other pleasures do not exist.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (January 29, 1860 - July 15, 1904), Russian writer

A real writer is the same as ancient prophet: He sees more clearly than ordinary people.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

AT good story, as on a warship, there should not be anything superfluous.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The art of writing is the art of cutting.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Brevity is the soul of wit.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Always being dissatisfied is the essence of creativity.
Jules Renard (February 22, 1864 - May 22, 1910), French writer

Truth is not always art, and art is not always truth, but truth and art have common ground.
Jules Renard

To create is to kill death.
Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 - December 30, 1944), French writer

To create is nothing but to believe.
Romain Rolland

Only the one who creates lives.
Romain Rolland

There is only one happiness: to create.
Romain Rolland

Creativity is the beginning that gives man immortality.
Romain Rolland

To create, be it new flesh or spiritual values, means to break free from the captivity of your body, means to rush into the hurricane of life, means to be the One Who Is. To create is to kill death.
Romain Rolland

Only the one who creates lives. The rest are shadows wandering the earth, alien to life. All the joys of life are the joys of creativity: love, genius, action are discharges of power born in the flame of a single fire.
Romain Rolland

The fruits of true science and true art are the fruits of sacrifices, not material gains
Romain Rolland

Life is not a burden, but the wings of creativity and joy; and if anyone turns it into a burden, then he himself is to blame.
Vikenty Vikentievich Veresaev (January 16, 1867 - June 4, 1945) - Russian writer

A person can have many different moods, but he has one soul, and he subtly puts this soul into all his creativity.
John Galsworthy (August 14, 1867 - January 31, 1933), English writer

Don't lose your sense of humor. Humor is to a person what fragrance is to a rose.
John Galsworthy

No one can force a writer to feel and see life in this way and not otherwise. After he has learned to read and write, the only thing he can learn from others is how not to write. The true mentor of a writer is life itself.
John Galsworthy

Painting allows you to see things as they once were, when they were looked at with love.
Paul Valéry (October 30, 1871 - July 20, 1945), French poet and essayist

Inspiration is a hypothesis that assigns the role of an observer to the author.
Paul Valery
The painter must depict not what he sees, but what will be seen.
Paul Valery

You need to be light as a bird, not like a feather.
Paul Valery

Man is more complex, infinitely more complex than his thought.
Paul Valery

Creativity is a passion that dies in form.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin (February 4, 1873 - January 16, 1954) - Russian Soviet writer

Creation - special kind activity, it carries satisfaction in itself.
Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965), English writer

The world consists of me, my thoughts, my feelings; everything else is a mirage, pure imagination. Life is a dream where I myself create images that pass before me.
Somerset Maugham

Good style should not leave a trace of effort. What is written should seem like a happy accident.
Somerset Maugham
Dreams are not a departure from reality, but a means to get closer to it.
Somerset Maugham

Great truths are too important to be new.
Somerset Maugham

Life is ten percent what you do in it, and ninety percent how you take it.
Somerset Maugham

Writing simply and clearly is just as difficult as being sincere and kind.
Somerset Maugham

The whole difference between creation and creation boils down to the following: a creation can only be loved by one who has already been created, while a creation is loved as yet uncreated.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 16, 1936), English writer and Christian thinker

Loneliness gives birth to the original, bold, frighteningly beautiful - poetry.
Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955), German writer

Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924), Austrian writer

Who retains the ability to see beauty does not age
Franz Kafka

Art is always the work of the whole person. So it's basically tragic.
Franz Kafka

When humanity is destroyed, no more art. Unite beautiful words is not art.
Bertolt Brecht (February 10, 1898 - August 14, 1956), German playwright and poet

All kinds of arts serve the greatest of arts - the art of living on Earth.
Bertolt Brecht

Epochs without great goals have no great art.
Bertolt Brecht

The unmistakable sign that something is not art, or that one does not understand art, is boredom... Art should be a means of education, but its goal is pleasure.
Bertolt Brecht

All kinds of arts serve the greatest of the arts - the art of living on earth.
Bertolt Brecht

Art requires knowledge.
Bertolt Brecht