Eduard Hanslick Quote

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.


Vom Musikalisch-Schönen (ed. Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1957)


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...

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...

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...

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...