Leo Tolstoy

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

Leo Tolstoy

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Leo Tolstoy

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

Leo Tolstoy

Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Leo Tolstoy

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

Leo Tolstoy

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

Leo Tolstoy

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other’s activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

Leo Tolstoy

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

Leo Tolstoy

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Leo Tolstoy