According to Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), what is art?

In the 1898 essay “What is Art?” Leo Tolstoy defines art as:

“a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.”

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