Author of quotes: Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy

Only a sense of responsibility gives power to the artist and his power is tenfold; only the mental atmosphere, the native, healthy for him, can raise the individual to a high pathos and sentiment, and only confidence that the artist's labor and necessary and dear to the community, helping to Mature exotic plants called pictures. And only those pictures will make the pride of the tribe, and contemporaries and posterity.