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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.

~ Eduard Hanslick

Above Affects Aims Art Beautiful Contemplation Feelings Imagination Organ Our Producing Pure Something Which

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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

Affect Arts Beautiful Feelings Follows Grant Imagination Indirectly Likely Organ True Which

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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

Beyond Combinations Hear Means Music Notes Nothing Only Sound Sounds Speaks Subject

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The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

~ Eduard Hanslick

Aesthetic Always Assumption Awakens Beautiful Been Course Describe False Feelings Hitherto Inquire Much Music Musical Nearly Object Pursued Which

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Eduard Hanslick

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11 September, 1825

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06 August, 1904

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