Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression. Art is a human activity- that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are touched by these feelings and also experience them.
Leo Tolstoythe same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982
Leo TolstoyI imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.
Leo TolstoyPower, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.
Leo Tolstoy