Individuals who left their creative traces in the pages of history. Outstanding figures of Armenian and foreign culture, science, spiritual and public life, their life and activity in the format of TV encyclopedia.
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Hamo SahyanOnce the poet was asked why didn’t he write memoirs, he answered: “When I was still a child, my father would put me on the donkey and send me to bring apples. Once as I was coming down a hill, I saw that the saddlebag tore and all the apples scattered on the ground. The memories are likewise, once on the floor, you can’t go back and collect them”. |
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Movses Khorenatsi60-ies of the V century: the neighboring village Vagharshapat is hosting the Catholicos of All Armenians Gyut. Those sitting at the table with him ask an old man, who lived there as a stranger, to make a toast to the Catholicos. The old man makes the toast in the style of sharakan (Armenian chant). Everyone is startled. The Catholicos Gyut gets closer to him and bows low to kiss his Teacher he was seeking for so many years. That old man was Movses Khorenatsi, the greatest of written Armenian culture Golden age. |
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Martiros SaryanMartiros Saryan wrote about his seventy years of creative life as follows: “I am not satisfied with what I do, I strive for more creative simplicity, so that when people look at my painting, they feel as if they went outside for fresh air and they breath the joy. If the painting doesn’t excite and bring positive feelings about, then it misses what’s most important –the eternal breath of life. I seek to transfer the feeling of happiness for living”. |
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Sergei DovlatovThroughout all his life, Sergei Dovlatov managed to publish just one story in his “native” soviet press, and the topic was industry. The writer residing in the State and getting published in the most prestigious periodicals, was only known by “self-published” materials and his own program aired by the “Liberty” radio-station. His last book, the 13th, which was supposed to be published in the Soviet Union, was actually published in 1990, a few days after the writer died. |
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Auguste RenoirOctave Mirbeau said about him -- the only one in painting who has not created a single sad painting. |
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Rouben MamoulianWho was this innovator of movie world? What discoveries did he make? What inventions? He often cited Shakespeare: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players", and then added: "The most important thing is to act well regardless how bad or good your play is". |
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Ingmar Bergman"Happiness is good health and a bad memory"-laughed the genious filmmaker. |
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Charlie Chaplin"Life is not a meaning, but a wish". What does it take to achieve this seemingly simple truth?...no less than a Chaplinian biography. |
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William Saroyan"Starting is always difficult, as it is not easy to choose from the store of language that one lucid word which should live forever". |
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Van GoghHe was convinced that the most genuine way to know God was to love everything around us. All what his heart and thoughts were filled with, turned into a painting. He was dreaming… painting what he dreamt. |
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Antoine de Saint-ExupéryHe managed to get on board of the plane in 12. The unsuccessful pilot was Saint-Ex - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Later on he wrote: “Looking down the airplane, I dreamt only about writing”. In 1944, Antoine’s military airplane took off as usual. The alarm his friends felt was not without reason…
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Salvador DaliHe was against mechanics, spinach, Sun, Rembrandt, ghosts and mountains, and he was for complications, snails, Vermeer, religion and himself. “When I was six, I wanted to become a cook, in seven I wanted to become Napoleon. There are two critical things that can happen in the life of a painter of today – to be Spanish and bear the name Salvador Dali”, - this is what the author of melting clocks and burning giraffes wrote about himself. |