Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy; 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 August 1828
CountryRussian Federation
art love-life problem
The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.
appreciation art understanding
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...
art violence causes
Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.
should smallpox artificial
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.
art men people
Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.
art great-work works-of-art
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.
inspirational art sacrifice
Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.
art mean men
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.
art philosophy men
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.
art mean expression
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.
art important language
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
art lying people
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure... People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.
art real mean
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.
art book mountain
In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.