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Interpreting art in words shows the interpreter cannot feel its infection
Drawn from what Leo Tolstoy said
What Leo Tolstoy actually said
- Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828 to 1910)
The interpretation of works of art by words only indicates that the interpreter is himself incapable of feeling the infection of art.
Where this was said
↗What Is Art? (1897-1898; Aylmer Maude translation)gutenberg.org
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