Leo Tolstoy Quotes about Beauty
It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker (2010). “War and Peace”, p.1241, Oxford University Press
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
'The Kreutzer Sonata' 5 (translated by Maude)
We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.
Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...”, p.55, e-artnow