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“Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.”

Quote by Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

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“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.”

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“In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.”

Knows Men Should Wells Art Feelings Age Lying Religious Common Consciousness Perception Method Fellows Unions Various Well Being Brotherhood Fellow Man Lying Men Brotherhood Of Man

Book:What is Art?:

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“At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.”

Thinking Men Firsts Heart Mean Two Turns Speak Force Voice Subjects Danger He Man Solitude Equal Approach Painful Pleasant Reasonable Yield Avoiding

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“Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?”

States Common Despair Desperation Overlooked

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“I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.”

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“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.”

May Mean Art Feelings Form Sound Lines Movement Color Expression Activity Oneself Evoke

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“Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.”

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Book:ANNA KARENINA

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“The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.”

Art Important Language Activity Art Is Universal Importance

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“When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.”

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Book:A Confession: Easyread Edition

Source: A Confession: Easyread Edition

“Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.”