"Direct duty of artist - to show, but not prove. Proceeding to the answer for the lecture of Вячеслава Ivanovich Ivanov, I must say that I avoid the direct duties of artist| but the real position of the Russian artistic word shows obviously, that we, Russian symbolists, passed the known part of the way and we stand before new tasks| in those cases, when a moment is transitional so determinants, as in our days, we call for help remembrance and, following his filament, we set and specify, - maybe, to itself more, than other, - the origin, that country from that we came".