"True art is the infection of feeling. When the sadness or joy felt by the creator is transmitted directly to the receiver, art is complete."
Today's Question
If there is an artwork (book, movie, music, etc.) that deeply resonated with you recently, what emotion inside you did it shake?
Why the Great Writer Lived as a Simple Peasant
Tolstoy gained world fame and wealth through War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In his later years, however, he suffered a deep spiritual crisis and questioned the essence of art and life.
He renounced his aristocratic lifestyle and copyrights, wore simple peasant clothes, plowed fields, and repaired shoes. He declared that luxurious art is fake and that only art that infects feelings—allowing even children or workers to connect—has true value.