Nicolai Fechin:
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It is impossible to limit art by any definitions or requirements, deciding once and for all that the art in question is the best and none could be better.
Art, like the whole of our life, submits to the eternal law of change, and any attempts to stop it at one particular level are like vain attempts to stop time itself.
. . . It is impossible to be alive without the effort to create and to bring something new into concrete manifestations."
From Nicolai Fechin by Mary N. Balcomb.
