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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
— Maxim Gorky
With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.
— Maxim Gorky
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
— Maxim Gorky
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
— Maxim Gorky
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
— Maxim Gorky
Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
— Maxim Gorky
The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.
— Arshile Gorky
Jazz may be a thrilling communion with the primitive soul; or it may be an ear-splitting bore.
— Maxim Gorky
And he's direct, clear, firm, like truth itself.
— Maxim Gorky
To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.
— Maxim Gorky
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
— Maxim Gorky
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood
— Maxim Gorky
Art must always remain earnest ... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.
— Arshile Gorky
in music one can hear everything.
— Maxim Gorky
Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt
— Maxim Gorky
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
— Maxim Gorky
You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.
— Arshile Gorky
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
— Maxim Gorky
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
— Maxim Gorky
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
— Maxim Gorky
If Picasso drips, I drip ... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.
— Arshile Gorky
Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.
— Maxim Gorky
In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.
— Maxim Gorky
The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.
— Peter Ackroyd
Every new time will give its law.
— Maxim Gorky
Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.
— Arshile Gorky
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.
— Arshile Gorky
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
— Maxim Gorky
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
— Maxim Gorky
All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I have even heard it said that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
— Maxim Gorky
I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.
— Arshile Gorky
Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.
— Arshile Gorky
Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
— Maxim Gorky
When a person expends the least possible amount of energy on a certain act, that is grace.
— Anton Chekhov
Was it Gorky who said: If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
— Maxim Gorky
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
— Maxim Gorky
The indifferent pendulum of the clock kept chopping off the seconds of life, calmly and precisely.
— Maxim Gorky
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
— Maxim Gorky
You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
— Maxim Gorky
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.
— Maxim Gorky
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.
— Maxim Gorky
I do not paint in front of but from within nature.
— Arshile Gorky
