Yevgeny Zamyatin Literature Quotations

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.

The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much more easily into the fields of painting, literature, and the theater.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.