Art Quote by Eduard Hanslick

“Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.” quote by Eduard Hanslick — Download Open image

“Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.”

Eduard Hanslick

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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

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The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other…

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