Adamovich "Tolstoy as an artist"

George says that he was an artist and an enemy of art, the kind that justified itself for its own sake and was why T and Turgenev never got along. In his creative work he was essentially searching for pravda, translated as truth and justice. He tried to write without using a single word for adornment. He had a gift for detecting in others the desire to show off and it turned him off from others. 140 He felt an innate need to be truthful and to use the same basis with his characters. The motto of W and P is "there is no greatness with out simplicity , goodness and truth." he held the same view of literarure and even the idea of goodness is a prerequesite to beauty and perfection.
T never wrote "beautiful" or "musical" prose and if he ever did he would destoy it. He listened to the speech of simple folks who knew no grammar and found a freshness and expressiveness which he believed that educated people had lost. 141 T could turn trite literary devises into greatness. Anna's death symbolized with a candle is such and although old and tired sounds as if T were the first person to use it. 143 In What is Art, T treats all the other writes in it poorly and was unjust to those that could have been his allies. His search for truth made him short-sighted and his own mind full of his own impressions was not always open to others. 146