Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts: Essays On Revolution, Culture, And The Bolsheviks, 1917-1918 Quotes
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.