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Beauty, or what pleases us, cannot be the basis for defining art
Drawn from what Leo Tolstoy said
What Leo Tolstoy actually said
- Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828 to 1910)
And in the same way, beauty, or that which pleases us, can in no sense serve as the basis for the definition of art; nor can a series of objects which afford us pleasure serve as the model of what art should be.
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↗What Is Art? (1897-1898; Aylmer Maude translation)gutenberg.org
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