Art 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 N. Tolstoy
Art Is
Topic: Creativity, Culture, & the Arts
“Art 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 N. Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Christianity
What Is Art?
Tolstoy, Leo N. What Is Art? Trans. Maude Almeyer. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1960, pp. 51-52 [Leo N. Tolstoy [What Is Art? (Macmillan Publishing Company, 1960].
Leo N. Tolstoy
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Leo N. Tolstoy
Leo Nikolayevitch Tolstoy (9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910) was a Russian writer, philosopher and social activist who influenced Christian activism and nonviolent resistance movements and luminaries such as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Bevel, and Nelson Mandela.
Additional Leo N. Tolstoy Quotes
“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.”
–Leo N. Tolstoy [What is Art? (1897), Ch. 8].
“The activity of art is… as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.”
–Leo N. Tolstoy [What is Art? (1897)].
“The essence of the Christian perception consists in the recognition by every man of his sonship to God and of the consequent union of men with God and with one another, as is said in the gospel (John 17:213). Therefore the subject matter of Christian art is such feeling as can unite men with God and with one another.”
–Leo N. Tolstoy [What Is Art? (1897)].