Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, or Leon Tolstoi as he is better known, was born on September 9, 1928, and died on November 20, 1910. One of the best-known Russian novelists in the world, writer of gigantic novels, such as "Ana Karenina","The war and the peace","The death of Ivan Ilyich", among many others.
An author already well known, it should be said, being that he is, among the Russian writers of 1800, he is the one who has had the most openness to the world.
And among the many things that I found about this author throughout my search, there was a particular text that I believe deserves, at least, a slight stirring of the soul.
"What is the art?", It is a text in which Tolstoy deploys all his literary, poetic, and spiritual weapons to define what, in his opinion, is art.
A long text, in fact, to be read on the monitor screen. It is difficult to find it edited, at least here in Argentina, although I do not cease in my search. I think that, like Kandinsky's "On the Spiritual in Art", it is one of those works necessary in life. Not only because of its specific definition of what art implies, but because Art is everything that surrounds us, I consider. So discovering, approaching at least one definition, is approaching some kind of essential truth.
I leave the link for you to read, and I hope you enjoy it. http://www.ciudadseva.com/textos/teoria/opin/tolstoi1.htm