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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings. — Leo Tolstoy

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

Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attai its highest mainfestation only in conjunction with all kinds of art. — Leo Tolstoy

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference. — Leo Tolstoy

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all. — Leo Tolstoy

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology. — Ted Chiang

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life. — Leo Tolstoy

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. — Leo Tolstoy

Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent. — Leo Tolstoy

The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life ... — Leo Tolstoy

Happy people got something to fight for. — LaVyrle Spencer

It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life. — Jerry Greenfield

I thought it was about us. About my escape. About our happily-ever-after.
And it was.
And it wasn't. — Tahereh Mafi

it is better to understand the balance-sheet of one's own life than of the corn trade. — Seneca.

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment — Harriet Jacobs

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

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way. — Ewan McGregor

When it comes to mountains there are two kinds of people; those who walk half way up & quit & those who conquer it which one are you? — Ricardo Viana Vargas

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist." — Leo Tolstoy

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love. — Christine Gregoire

Cooking and film are completely different - but I'd rather stay in the kitchen than be in movies. — Nobu Matsuhisa

The one thing necessary in life, as in art is to tell the truth. — Leo Tolstoy

Initiative is at the heart of manhood — Dennis Rainey

Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred. — Germaine Greer

When she stamped her foot, it made a strange thud on the desolate beach. Like a heartbeat. — David Adams Richards

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

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it. — Aristotle.

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

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception. — Raphael Soyer

All art has this characteristic-it unites people. — Leo Tolstoy

The activity of art is ... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal. — Leo Tolstoy