Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Oh Leo.

That's him chillaxing.

"If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love."
-Leo Tolstoy

Oh Leo, I've never met you, my grandparents weren't even alive when you died...
But your words will live forever and ever. ::sighs::
You's gotz to readz his stuffz.

He wrote a book called What is Art? in 1897 and he talks about what makes good art good and bad art bad. Tolstoy said basically that good art needs to have three very important elements: it needs to be clear, sincere and the emotion behind it should be singular (from one experience). The way he put it together was eye opening. I recommend this to any artist - basically... Everyone.