Author of quotes: Maxim Kantor

Those who today compares fascism with communism do so either in complete ignorance or moral inferiority. Fascism as the ultimate expression of barbarism and paganism (in any field, from national to cultural policy) is completely opposite to communism, which I would consider more in the traditions of Christianity. Russia, made his way from paganism through Christianity to the Communist ideology, no doubt at the time ideologically - or should I say, spiritually - was the only opponent of fascism. To counter the idea, need an idea. Winning is not a weapon, no army, not even the people - winning spirit, concentrated in one or another point. Russia did not join the war, Europe would have fallen for sure.

Incarnate truth or falsehood there: there are two mirrors set against each other. It would be strange for one of the reflections to declare objective.

Did you say what the woman, succeeding twenty-five men, that she is against sodomy? No, I would say, from feelings, from life's contradictions, because suffered. And that is what the testimony of the moral dementia is perceived with respect. Life. Feelings.

... art is the most complete embodiment of history, through art history learning about himself. "Art is the measure of history" - a favorite expression of my father.

... time every man feels and lives differently, for the other there is a trench time in the trenches they wait out their lives; for someone there's a wave of time, on its crest, they succeed; but some can feel the whole ocean of time, all its vast space, its movement and its storms.

The energy of love is the only thing that defies repetition, something that is impossible to imitate. Methods of writing can be learned, but true passion rent impossible.

Art acts as the ocean - you can breathe the sea, standing near the shore, to live by the sea, it is not necessary to certainly be a sailor.

Dictators well, using the words "honor" and "truth", but the practical use of honor and truth in the economy has not been established, this is not a gas oil.

Electoral courage in matters of history - the thing is worthless.

... important thing in life is the ability to withstand the environment.

After a week in Milan has opened my exhibition the gallery invited a lot of guests, and people came to look at the paintings, brought from the other side of the iron curtain. All evidence of the abominations of Soviet life raised the audience spirits. People are always pleased to know that they are not wrong came to the right place where to be born.

My observations suggest the following: in the Russian man's irritation accumulated for a long time - and in the British rage erupts by itself. Russian ought to understand the truth of Tolstoy, to accept the logic of Lenin, to endure hunger and cold. A British silent, cocoa drinks, nothing but the newspaper "the Sun", never reads, and then - once, and the head of Charles Stuart chop off! Maybe that's what English property to spontaneously come rage and shred all life around and is a guarantee of the vaunted British freedoms? No wonder Stalin raised a toast to the long-suffering Russian people. Oh, he knew the tyrant, for what to drink!

The whole life passes: forever waiting for something - that one piece of paper, then the other. Then by the Soviet authorities required a piece of paper, then anti-Soviet, made no difference: sit and wait.

In war there are real people and there are people dead - and before this dichotomy other differences fade. Even if you don't like the writer Simonov, who wrote the novel "the Living and the dead", better still to say. There are ordinary soldiers and officers, there is a front and has a rear that's all. And nothing more, no intellectuals, no dissent, and can not be otherwise - because the war.