“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.” SaidMatterHandsEmotionSubjectsObjectsMusic IsAimMusicalPropositionsSubject Matter Author:Eduard Hanslick
“The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other words, although the beautiful exists for the gratification of an observer, it is independent of him. In this sense music, too, has no aim (object), and the mere fact that this particular art is so closely bound up with our feelings by no means justifies the assumption that its aesthetic principles depend on this union.” LooksMeanArtFactsFeelingsBeautifulEmotionPrinciplesObjectsParticularDependsArt IsAimIndependentRemainsUnionsMereBoundsAssumptionJustifyAestheticObserversGratification Author:Eduard Hanslick
“My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.” PassionEmotionAimMotivated Author:Rico Lebrun
“All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.” ArtActionEmotionArt IsAimSakeImmortalAim Of Life Author:Oscar Wilde
“The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.” ArtImportantArtistCertainOrderEmotionQualitySacrificeIllusionAimDetailsPoeticInferiors Author:Gustave Flaubert
“My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.” EmotionFoolAimProvoking Author:Casey Affleck