Ignatiy Vishnevetsky quotes

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Criticism will survive even if no one's paying for it. Obviously it's better if people are paying for it. But the fact that artists weren't able to make a living from their work hasn't detracted from the quality of that work. Charles Ives was the second greatest composer in American history and he worked in insurance his whole life.”
-- Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

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“Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.”
“An artistâ€™s job is to captivateâ€¦ if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”
“The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.”
“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”
“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”
“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”
“My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.”
“We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.”

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