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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."
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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."
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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."
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