By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“show them, not in reasoning but in life itself, the joy of general union beyond the barriers set up by life itself” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The artists of various sects, like the theologians of the various sects, mutually exclude and destroy themselves.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) -… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to understand art to be only what we hear and see in theaters, concerts, and exhibitions, together with buildings,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We talked of a future life, of art, service, marriage, and education; nor did the idea ever occur to us that very… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
![“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for the artist treating of a man's relation to all sides of life there cannot and should not be heroes, but there should be men. [...] The historian has to deal with the results…” quote by Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/64c/leo-tolstoy-55_art_from-some-words-about-war-and-peace-for_2609297.jpg)
