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 a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are… — 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 artists of various sects, like the theologians of the various sects, mutually exclude and destroy themselves.” — 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
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means… — 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
“And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the… — 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,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others… — 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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
