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Sincerity, an inner need to express one's feeling, sums up what makes art contagious
Drawn from what Leo Tolstoy said
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- Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828 to 1910)
I have mentioned three conditions of contagiousness in art, but they may all be summed up into one, the last, sincerity, i.e. that the artist should be impelled by an inner need to express his feeling.
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↗What Is Art? (1897-1898; Aylmer Maude translation)gutenberg.org
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