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Tolstoy on What is Art?

David Gane
David Gane
But art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
— Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?
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Co-writer of the Shepherd and Wolfe young adult mysteries, the internationally award-winning series, and teacher of storytelling and screenwriting.

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