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