Isaac Ilyich Levitan. (№ 389310)

But what to do, I can't be the least bit happy, easy, well, in a word, do not understand themselves outside of the painting. I've never loved so nature was not so sensitive to it, I've never felt I divine something spilled all over, but not everyone sees that even can not be called, because it is not amenable to reason, analysis, and attained through love. Without this feeling cannot be a true artist. Many people do not understand, call, perhaps, romantic nonsense - let them! They're the soul of discretion... But this is my insight is for me a source of deep suffering. Could there be anything more tragic, how to feel the endless beauty of the landscape, to notice the sacred mystery, to see God in everything and not be able to, conscious of their weakness, to Express these large feelings...