Ivan Turgenev Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Spiritual, Art, Creativity

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.839, Northwestern University Press

• In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Art, Law, Reason

• It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Art, Nonsense, Romanticism

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1950). “The Borzoi Turgenev”

• As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better--but you keep working anyway.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Inspirational, Art, Work

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.813, Northwestern University Press

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