“The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the strength of my soul, whom I have tried to set forth in all his beauty, and who has always been, is, and always will be most beautiful, is—the truth.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man’s reasonable perception into feeling.

A real work of art can only arise in the soul of an artist, occasionally as the fruit of the life he has lived

The cause of the production of real art is the artist’s inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated.”

— Leo Tolstoy “WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature)