Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.
Ilya EhrenburgIt’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.
Ilya EhrenburgWe know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.
Ilya Ehrenburg