Art Quote by Leo Tolstoy

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

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he…

— Leo Tolstoy

“For me, art is the desire to preserve the intangible feeling of such a moment, hidden in all the littlest details, and then to…

— Rachel Hartman

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

— Fernando Pessoa

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself…

— Leo Tolstoy

Art is the objectification of feeling.

— Herman Melville

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

— Walter Lippmann

Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of…

— Elizabeth Grosz

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

— George Stillman Hillard

“We are accustomed to understand art to be only what we hear and see in theaters, concerts, and exhibitions, together with buildings, statues, poems,…

— Leo Tolstoy

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with…

— Leo Tolstoy