8119 | Art aims only at beauty, of form, of idea, and (above all) of expression [Winckelmann, by Tolstoy] |
8120 | Objects can be beautiful which express nothing at all, such as the rainbow [Herbart, by Tolstoy] |
8124 | The highest feelings of mankind can only be transmitted by art [Tolstoy] |
8121 | Art is when one man uses external signs to hand on his feelings to another man [Tolstoy] |
8122 | True works of art transmit completely new feelings [Tolstoy] |
14835 | Artists are not especially passionate, but they pretend to be [Nietzsche] |
20422 | The experience of expression and communication are intermingled in art [Croce] |
23934 | The only expression art could have is the emotion resulting from pure form [Bell,C] |
20420 | The emotion expressed is non-conscious, but feels oppressive until expression relieves it [Collingwood] |
20331 | It is claimed that the expressive properties of artworks are non-physical [Wollheim] |
20345 | Some say art must have verbalisable expression, and others say the opposite! [Wollheim] |
18551 | Croce says art makes inarticulate intuitions conscious; rival views say the audience is the main concern [Scruton] |
12165 | Romantics say music expresses ideas, or the Will, or intuitions, or feelings [Scruton] |
12167 | Reference without predication is the characteristic of expression [Scruton] |
20417 | Expression can be either necessary for art, or sufficient for art (or even both) [Kemp] |
20418 | The horror expressed in some works of art could equallly be expressed by other means [Kemp] |
20419 | We don't already know what to express, and then seek means of expressing it [Kemp] |
20405 | Music may be expressive by being 'associated' with other emotional words or events [Davies,S] |
20403 | It seems unlikely that sad music expresses a composer's sadness; it takes ages to write [Davies,S] |