Repin was a model of selfless devotion to art. The artist wrote: "Art, I love you more goodness ... Love secretly, jealously, like an old drunkard - terminally. Wherever I go, whatever amused, no matter how admired, no matter what he enjoyed - it is always and everywhere in my head, my heart, my desires - the best and most secret. Hours in the morning, which I dedicate to him - the best hours of my life. And joy and sorrow - joy to the happiness and sorrow to death - all those hours, which rays illuminate or darken all the other episodes of my life. "

"Creativity - is the living embodiment of direct, an individual artist′s world ... is independence from the government and all the benefits "- so he wrote the great Japanese artist.

The famous painter Delacroix said: "We need to see Rubens and Rubens copy must be: for Rubens - God!"

The first biography of the artist was Jan Orlers, mayor of Leiden.

Creativity Tiepolo continued the great tradition of Venetian painting. But only in the twentieth century, he again received the recognition it deserves. Today the art of Tiepolo is considered the most significant phenomenon in the late baroque paintings.