Quotes by Trotsky, Leon

Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling >>

The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration >>

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two whee >>

Quotations about Arts and Artists

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which on >>

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the >>

In art as in love, instinct is enough. >>

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon