Quote of Leo Tolstoy: Art is a human activity consisting...
Biography - Leo Tolstoy:
Russian writer.
Born: 1828 - Died: 1910
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Russian Federation
Born: 1828 - Died: 1910
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Russian Federation
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.
Translation
(French)
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Quotes about art:
The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Quotes about others:
Quotes for: Feeling
Our deeds, our feelings, our thoughts, and our sensations just happen of themselves, as the rain falls and the water flows along the valley.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy also said...
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