Isaac Levitan in the memoirs of his pupil P. Sizov

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This new residence II called "Barbizon" and half seriously, half-jokingly said that we must do as barbizontsy: coup, make sure to see Europe.
"And indeed, gentlemen, perhaps, get into the story?"
All affected whiff of a deity. We were learning the harmony and beauty of nature, languid spring twilight witch agitated soul.
He came II once a week, two or three. "Well, my children .." - and "children" were already bearded - and his shaggy hand touched the exercise. At sentencing, he was cruel, implacable, merciless. Flabby old man's paintings were especially persecuted them, he pursued "drakonstvo", or falsification of the figure, "smithereens" and highly valued generalization of the masses and simplifying technology. "Let the beauty, find God, give not a documentary but artistic truth. Down with the documents, portraits of nature do not need "...
(Magazine "public good number 16. May 1904)