Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• Music is the shorthand of emotion.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Music, Emotion, Shorthand

• True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Knowledge, Science

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.212, BIG BYTE BOOKS

• Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Mean, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy”, p.98, Penguin UK

• Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Music, Men, Jazz

• The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

  Leo Tolstoy

  Appreciation, Art, Understanding

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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