# Voltaire — What Is Art? character guide

> Voltaire in What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Who they are

French Enlightenment writer cited in aesthetic debates.

## In the story

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_art_se/chapters/iv)

Mentioned as one who discussed taste in relation to beauty.

### [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_art_se/chapters/x)

Quoted on the principle that all genres are good except the boring one, adapted by Tolstoy to art.

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