Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

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.

We 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.

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.