Leo Tolstoy on art
“Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.”
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Faith is the force of life.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Love those you hate you.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Spring is the time of plans and projects.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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