Leo Tolstoy
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Tolstoy was a Russian writer, regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 9 Sep 1828 (O.S. 28 August), Yasnaya Polyana, near Tula (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 20 Nov 1910, Astapovo railway station, of pneumonia, aged 82 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Army: Artillery officer in the Crimean War; at the siege of Sevastopol in 1854–55 (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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40 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Almost no human activity except the military consumes as much labour as art (opens korrents.com)
“Hundreds of thousands of workmen,—carpenters, masons, painters, joiners, paperhangers, tailors, hairdressers, jewellers, moulders, type-setters,—spend their whole lives in hard labour to satisfy the demands of art, so…”
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Beauty, or what pleases us, cannot be the basis for defining art (opens korrents.com)
“And in the same way, beauty, or that which pleases us, can in no sense serve as the basis for the definition of art; nor can a series of objects which afford us pleasure serve as the model of what art should be.”
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No exact definition of art exists because it has been based on beauty (opens korrents.com)
“Therefore, however strange it may seem to say so, in spite of the mountains of books written about art, no exact definition of art has been constructed. And the reason of this is that the conception of art has been…”
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Almost no human activity except the military consumes as much labour as art (opens korrents.com)