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September 20, 2005
tolstoy on art
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the repression of man's emotion by external signs, it is not the production of pleasing objects; and above all, it is not pleasure; but is is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity."
Leo Tolstoy - What Is Art?
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