“The artists of various sects, like the theologians of the various sects, mutually exclude and destroy themselves.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this… — 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
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
“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
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
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
“Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.” — 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
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
Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man. — 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
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
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
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. — 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
“[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 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
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
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
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
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 activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal. — 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 Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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 Image
