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Full Idea
The central problem of aesthetics is how satisfaction with and pleasure in an object are possible without any reference thereof to our willing.
Gist of Idea
Aesthetics concerns how we can take pleasure in an object, with no reference to the will
Source
Arthur Schopenhauer (Parerga and Paralipomena [1851], II:415), quoted by Christopher Janaway - Schopenhauer 6 'Aesthetic'
Book Ref
Janaway,Christopher: 'Schopenhauer' [OUP 2002], p.71
A Reaction
This does seem a good distinction. We can divide pleasures into willed and unwilled. Compare thinking that some remote stranger (in a photograph) is very beautiful, with falling in love with someone.
Related Idea
Idea 21370 Schopenhauer is a chief proponent of aesthetic experience as 'disinterested' [Schopenhauer, by Janaway]