Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people…

Leo Tolstoy
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Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.
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A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2010). A Calendar of … ▶
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In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2011). War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, p.1201, Vintage

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

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