Arkady Raikin. Without make-up. Memories (№ 347760)

Artists, believed he [the father], the majority of tramps, tumbleweed. They are frivolous, unfit for life and because, with rare exceptions, penniless and devoid of a stable position in society. To be a doctor, a lawyer, in the end, the forest tractor is a business, and being an artist is not the case.