Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

Leo Tolstoy

What Is Art?

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Topic

Purpose of art

Author

Leo Tolstoy

Source

What Is Art?

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Definition

Language

Russian

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Russia Europe

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Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. What is Art? London: The Brotherhood Publishing Company, 1898.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. What Is Art? Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 1996.

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The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

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Topic
Time Patience
Speaker
Prince Mikhail Kutúzov

Author

Leo Tolstoy
Source
War and Peace
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1869 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. "Война и миръ [War and Peace]." The Russian Messenger, 1865-1867. Serial.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Oxford University Press, 2010.

Another quote from the 1890s

I know why the caged bird sings!

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Topic
Captivity Freedom

Author

Paul Laurence Dunbar
Source
Sympathy Lyrics of the Hearthside
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1899 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Dunbar, Paul Lawrence. "Sympathy." Lyrics of the Hearthside. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1899, st. 3.

Current Citation

Dunbar, Paul Lawrence. "Sympathy." Paul Lawrence Dunbar: Selected Poems. Dover Publications, 1997, st. 3.

Another quote originally in Russian

When a man spends the least possible number of movements over one definite action, that is grace.

Anton Chekhov

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Topic
Grace

Author

Anton Chekhov
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Definition
Language
Russian
Time
1899 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Chekhov, Anton. Letter to Alexi Peshkov (Maxim Gorky). 3 Jan. 1899.

Current Citation

Chekhov, Anton. "To Alexi Peshkov (Gorky), 3 January 1899, Yalta." A Life in Letters, translated by Rosamund Bartlett and Anthony Phillips. Penguin Classics, 2004.

Another quote of the following type Definition

Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish.

Sigmund Freud

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Topic
Happiness

Author

Sigmund Freud
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Definition
Language
German
Time
1898 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 16 Jan. 1898.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.