Joseph Brodsky - Best Quotes

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself not on the outside.

Beauty

What I like about cities is that everything is king size the beauty and the ugliness.

Joseph Brodsky

What I like about cities is that everything is king size the beauty and the ugliness.

Attitude

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Joseph Brodsky

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Author: Joseph Brodsky

After all it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them it had better be life.

Poetry is rather an approach to things to life than it is typographical production.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

It is well to read everything of something and something of everything.

Man is what he reads.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself not on the outside.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size the beauty and the ugliness.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.