An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
Maxim GorkyTwo forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
Maxim GorkyThis fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!
Maxim GorkyWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
Maxim Gorky