There is no progress in art.

Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young painters and sculptors need to know the works of their immediate elders. Such a continuity does not exist here to a sufficient degree in the visual arts.

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

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

Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.