A Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.
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Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
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I don't believe that my first name is Leo or that my last name is Tolstoy. I'm a storyteller.
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