The Importance of Moral Purpose in Art

There's that idea that art has to have a moral purpose and there's also this idea that the originating impulse for great art is from a religious consciousness. So I think it comes from a higher impulse, an impulse that I'm not even going to pretend that I fully understand, so I agree with him there but let's look at a couple more of Tolstoy's ideas in what is art. He says one of the most important things about a piece of art is that it's sincere and that the artist enters into actually recalls the feeling they wish to experience and to infect others with. In addition to that you know replicated experience and sincerity it's in service of a higher moral aim and