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Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

Leo Tolstoy

Art, Mean, Men

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.12, BIG BYTE BOOKS

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

Leo Tolstoy

Inspirational, Art, Sacrifice

graf Leo Tolstoy (1946). “What is Art?: And Essays on Art”

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

Leo Tolstoy

Art, Great Work, Works Of Art

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.8083, e-artnow

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

Leo Tolstoy

Art, Violence, Causes

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.222, BIG BYTE BOOKS

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

Leo Tolstoy

Art, Philosophy, Men

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)”, p.1257, e-artnow

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

Leo Tolstoy

Appreciation, Art, Understanding

"What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

Leo Tolstoy

Art, Book, Mountain

"What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.

Leo Tolstoy

Art, Mean, Expression

"What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

Leo Tolstoy

Art, Children, Thinking

In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in the evolution of feelings, which takes place by means of art. Lower feelings-less kind and less needed for the good of humanity-are forced out and replaced by kinder feelings which better serve us individually and collectively. This is the purpose of art.

Leo Tolstoy

Art, Mean, Feelings