The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Leo TolstoyAnd so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.
Leo TolstoyThe artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour. He will strive to give the fruit of that supreme spiritual force which passes through him to the greatest number of people, because this conveying of the feelings that have been born in him to the greatest number of people is his joy and his reward. The artist of the future will not even understand how it is possible for an artist, whose joy consists in the widest dissemination of his works, to give these works only in exchange for a certain payment.
Leo Tolstoy