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


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

Eduard Hanslick Quotes

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

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

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

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