Thursday, February 28, 2008

Notes on Tolstoy, What is Art, Chapter 1

(Originally Written Feb. 28, 2008 in the Journal)

What is Art?

Chapter 1

Much is spent to pursue art, including the sacrifice of the lives of men.

People are turned into specialists by numbering them to every other important aspect of life.

Is art for art's sake worth all the cruelty and malice it takes?

Art has turned men against one another. Different schools disown other schools or all others. Each member of a school is so devoted to his own personal fancy that the very definition of art is muddled.

Can we allow a thing we cannot even define to swallow so many lives?

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