Art Quote by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.”

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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Whatever happens to be in style.

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Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.

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It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is…

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If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if…

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Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may…

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice

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A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the…

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Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister

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True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most…

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If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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