 | graf Leo Tolstoy - 1899 - 622 pages
...that transmits every kind of feeling, if only those feelings afford us pleasure. N CHAPTER VIII BUT if art is a human activity having for its purpose the...highest and best feelings to which men have risen, how could it be that humanity for a certain rather considerable period of its existence (from the time... | |
 | graf Leo Tolstoy - Russian literature - 1902 - 582 pages
...that transmits every kind of feeling, if only those feelings afford us pleasure. CHAPTER VIII BUT if art is a human activity having for its purpose the...highest and best feelings to which men have risen, how could it be that humanity for a certain rather considerable period of its existence (from the time... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - Quotations - 1914 - 1514 pages
...of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of US. The Kingdom of God. Chap. xii. Art is a human activity having for its purpose the...highest and best feelings to which men have risen. •• What is Art f Chap.mii. ÍEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE. 1844-1900. I teach you the Overman, shall... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1928 - 494 pages
...work and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. — EMERSON. Art is a human activity having for its purpose the...highest and best feelings to which men have risen. — TOLSTOI. The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they... | |
 | 1959 - 216 pages
...relation between each of them and world affairs. CHAPTER THREE Humanities, History, and World Affairs Art is a, human activity having for its purpose the...highest and best feelings to which men have risen. LN TOLSTOI, What Is Art? IT is PERHAPS MOST LOGICAL to start our survey of what the several branches... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare Committee - 1973 - 1672 pages
...in the arts, those artistic creations of man which in the words of Tolstoi : have as their purpose a transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen, but I must give all our people cause to like it for it is important. Our American artist and their... | |
 | United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe - Art - 1986 - 174 pages
...portray the highs and the Ions of the human condition. Leo Tolstoi, a Russian, once defined art as "a human activity having for Its purpose the transmission...to others of the highest and best feelings to which man has arisen." It Is sad testament to their true nature that the Soviet Government does not have... | |
 | Pauline Koner - Performing Arts - 1993 - 144 pages
...self hidden behind all the learned physical technique. Art is a human activity having for its purpose transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. What is Art? Count Leo Tolstoy The specific exercises given in this small volume are simply examples... | |
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