But to have kept his pre-Raphaelite individuality with two such native impressionists as Keene and Whistler for his most intimate friends would have perhaps been more than could be expected of human nature.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
Lacking, however, a deep and catholic understanding for art, Tolstoy, in contrast with the modern impressionists, would restrict artists to the expression of a single type of sentiments, those that reside in the sphere of religious consciousness.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
They are belated impressionists of considerable merit working in a thoroughly fresh and personal way on the problems of a bygone age.
"Since Cézanne"
Clive Bell