A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented but troubled 18 | dG1fdHo1QzMyRjFUemc
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00:00You get two inches away from the painting, all you see is brush strokes, and ten feet
00:22back, you see this beautiful painting.
00:25This is Serov.
00:27He lives near here?
00:29Yeah, up on High Street.
00:30If you're thinking about going up there, I wouldn't recommend it.
00:35Mr. Serov?
00:36Uh-huh?
00:37You have to teach me to paint.
00:39Painting is dead.
00:41I'm going to Pennsylvania.
00:43Are you gonna paint?
00:44No, I have a girlfriend, a young blonde.
00:47Really?
00:48Oh, no.
00:52You're telling me you want to go into the woods with an old man.
00:55This guy's a Russian master.
00:56Great, he's Russian too.
00:58Today, you paint.
01:02Sun is like a woman.
01:04When she kisses a land with warm lips, she leaves a little color everywhere.
01:09Are you the fix-it man?
01:10I'm an artist.
01:14You must have some talent.
01:15Nikolai doesn't take on any students.
01:17What do you think?
01:19Are these supposed to be clouds or flying rocks?
01:23Are you telling me that this is the nicest he gets?
01:26Has he told you about his wife?
01:28That kind of guilt never leaves you.
01:33The job of the artist is to uplift men's soul.
01:38I thought we had an agreement.
01:40She's my friend, not yours.
01:45The deal was I come up here and you teach me how to paint.
01:47I'll show you.
01:48What's that?
01:49That's nice.
01:51Being a human being is knowing that life is short.
01:55You'd be crazy to become a painter today.
01:59Nobody cares.
02:00There are no heroes.
02:02I was hoping that you'd be mine.
02:20If you see beauty everywhere and everything, your soul is set free.