“By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.”

— Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art? (1897), Ch. 8

About Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910

Russian novelist and moral philosopher, author of 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'.

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.”

“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”

“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”

“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”

“Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at ease.”

“Artists are here to disturb the peace.”

“Create pure thoughts in me and make me faithful again.”

“Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.”