Yes, we should want to be infected by emotion, Tolstoy, but emotion is fleeting and when it flees what can we say of form and color, and all of those essentials? And what can be said of truth, the thing that should ground all emotion? Form and color and so on should be appreciated because they hold the power to persuade the viewer to feel the intended emotion.
And further, Tolstoy, can we not look at something of which we have no emotion and simply appreciate it for its mastery of composition, its practicality, and can that emotion of appreciation not be the intended consequence of the brush stroke you so easily dismiss?
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