The awe he felt in those rooms! A cloak painted so that you could feel the pull of its rippling in the wind. A staff painted so that you saw clearly how its angle would change as the bearer put weight on it. This, he felt, was what art should be: not entertainment, not instruction, but something that spoke to the highest possibilities of the human spirit. People say that now, with Khrushchev having succeeded Stalin, Soviet artists are finally free to express themselves. But animation directors are so cautious! He yearns to create work worthy of Leonardo, of Goya,
