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Full Idea
We could not have a feeling for the beauties of art unless we had been correspondingly moved in front of nature.
Gist of Idea
A love of nature must precede a love of art
Source
Richard Wollheim (Art and Its Objects [1968], 43)
Book Ref
Wollheim,Richard: 'Art and Its Objects' [Penguin 1975], p.115
A Reaction
Wollheim offers this in defence of Kant's view, without necessarily agreeing. Similarly one could hardly care for fictional characters, but not for real people. So the aesthetic attitude may arise from life, rather than from art. Is art hence unimportant?