Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (№ 246617)

He had the ability to understand art and it's true, with a taste to imitate art, and he thought that he is the same as what you need for the artist, and some little time hesitating what he will choose a kind of painting: religious, historical, genre or realistic, he began to write. He knew all the families and could be inspired by the one and the other; but he could not imagine that it was possible not to know what is the birth of painting and be inspired directly by what is in the soul, without caring whether what he writes, belong to any known genus.