Author of quotes: Isaac Ilyich Levitan
You see, sometimes you need to forget about what you wrote, so that later you can look at it again in a new way. And it will immediately become clear how much has not yet been done, how hard and how much still needs to be worked on the picture. I’m now removing the unnecessary stuff, exactly what makes the picture scream.
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Viker 14-03-2024 / 15:25
February 16, 1900
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Viker 05-02-2024 / 14:55
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...
Quote Explanation: From a letter to Levitan Chekhov, spring 1887.
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Viker 26-03-2020 / 10:21
Nature should not be copied, but you have to feel its essence and free from accidents.
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MegaMozg 09-01-2017 / 17:12
