Quote by Leo Tolstoy
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the maj

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people cant eat it. – Leo Tolstoy

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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. – Leo Tolstoy

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. – Leo Tolstoy

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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. – Leo Tolstoy

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Good architecture lets nature in. – Mario Pei (1901–1978)

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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. – Samuel Butler

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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. – Cyril Connolly

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[I]t was a hymn to the beauty of the human form… and the praise of Nature, sublime, indifferent, lovely, and cruel. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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