Ivan Turgenev Quotes about Art

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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

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

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

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