An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
More Quotes from Eduard Hanslick:
On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i. e., pleasurable emotions on the other hand, the emotions are said to be the subject matter which musical works are intended to illustrate. Both propositions are alike in this, that one is as false as the other.Eduard Hanslick
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
Eduard Hanslick
That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand foot, necessarily eclipsed great serious music made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.
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.
Eduard Hanslick
So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.
Eduard Hanslick
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