"True works of art outlive the fashions of their time. Our love for them lasts throughout our lives. Ever since my youth I have been able to look at Michelangelo's "Creation of Man", at the "Battle of the Greeks and the Amazons" from the famous Scopas frieze, or at "La Marseillaise" by Francois Rude again and again, and every time as if for the first time. I have also been attracted, more than once, by the painters "in vogue", but became indifferent to them as soon as I tried to imitate their li...