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Tolstoy, Leo - What is Art (Penguin, 1996) Quotes
Tolstoy, Leo - What is Art (Penguin, 1996): Bibliographical notes, A note on the next, What is Art?
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“To invent ways for people to be well nourished by means of chemically prepared food and to make the forces of nature work for them, while the distribution of property and labour remains wrong is the same as inventing a means of pumping oxygen into the lungs of a man who is locked up in a room with bad air, when all that need be done is to stop keeping the man in the locked room.
No professors will ever set up a laboratory for the production of food that is better than the one that has been set up in the vegetable and animal world, and to use the fruits of this laboratory and participate in it, man has only to give himself to the ever-joyful need for labour, without which man's life is a torment. And here the scientists of our age, instead of applying all their forces to removing what hinders man from using these blessings prepared for him, recognize the situation in which man is deprived of these blessings as immutable, and, instead of arranging the life of men so that they could work joyfully and be nourished by the earth, they devise ways of turning them into artificial freaks. It is the same as if instead of taking a man from a locked room out into the fresh air. one invented ways of pumping the necessary oxygen into him. enabling him to live not in a house but in a stuffy basement.”
― Tolstoy, Leo - What is Art (Penguin, 1996): Bibliographical notes, A note on the next, What is Art?
No professors will ever set up a laboratory for the production of food that is better than the one that has been set up in the vegetable and animal world, and to use the fruits of this laboratory and participate in it, man has only to give himself to the ever-joyful need for labour, without which man's life is a torment. And here the scientists of our age, instead of applying all their forces to removing what hinders man from using these blessings prepared for him, recognize the situation in which man is deprived of these blessings as immutable, and, instead of arranging the life of men so that they could work joyfully and be nourished by the earth, they devise ways of turning them into artificial freaks. It is the same as if instead of taking a man from a locked room out into the fresh air. one invented ways of pumping the necessary oxygen into him. enabling him to live not in a house but in a stuffy basement.”
― Tolstoy, Leo - What is Art (Penguin, 1996): Bibliographical notes, A note on the next, What is Art?
“The task facing art is enormous: art, genuine art, guided by religion with the help of science, must make it so that men's peaceful life together, which is now maintained by external measures - courts, police, charitable institutions, workplace inspections, and so on - should be achieved by the free and joyful activity of men. Art should eliminate violence.
And only art can do that.”
― Tolstoy, Leo - What is Art (Penguin, 1996): Bibliographical notes, A note on the next, What is Art?
And only art can do that.”
― Tolstoy, Leo - What is Art (Penguin, 1996): Bibliographical notes, A note on the next, What is Art?
