Renae

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“A writer is precious and necessary for us only to the extent to which he reveals to us the inner labour of his soul.”
― Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?

“A true work of art is the revelation of a new conception of life arising in the artist's soul, which, when expressed, lights up the path along with humanity progresses”
― Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?

“To take the simplest example: a boy, having experienced, let us say, fear on encountering a wolf, relates that encounter; and, in order to evoke in others the feeling he has experienced, describes himself, his condition before the encounter, the surroundings, the wood, his own light-heartedness, and then the wolf's appearance, its movements, the distance between himself and the wolf, etc. All this, if only the boy, when telling the story, again experiences the feelings he had lived through and infects the hearers and compels them to feel what the narrator had experienced, is art.”
― Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?