20344 | Music is not an expressive art, because it expresses no familiar emotions [Hanslick, by Wollheim] |
8123 | The purpose of art is to help mankind to evolve better, more socially beneficial feelings [Tolstoy] |
20425 | In the cinema the emotions are weaker, but much clearer than in ordinary life [Fry] |
23926 | Art is distinguished by its aesthetic emotion, which produces appropriate form [Bell,C] |
12164 | Expressing melancholy is a good thing, but arousing it is a bad thing [Scruton] |
20404 | Music isn't just sad because it makes the listener feel sad [Davies,S] |