1828-1910, Russian Writer, Essayist
Appearance / Form It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. The Kreutzer Sonata , 1890
Art Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.
Wisdom for The Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing , © 2004