I. Ilyin "What Is Art?"
 

"Art is a ministry and joy. Serving the artist who creates it and creates in order to engage and we concelebrated with him ..."
"... Mankind today, and its mass, and its" elite ", can only run down, miss and pine from the inner emptiness. That is why it is eager to effect diversion and excitement, it looks sound, cod, bounce and nervous tickling ; it requires the "stimulants" - not only from the pharmacist, but also by the artist. And how many artists, because they, too, the children of his age, "is heading this quest, how many invent a" new art "of weary souls, or silyatsya break new, unusually severe irritation to give these stimuli crowd ... "

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