Notable Quotes:
- A notion held by many of the artists, critics, and philosophers of the Romantic Period is that the mind is an original source of human action and its products and perhaps even of Nature itself. -pg 17
- Mind is like nothing in Nature, even though it is a kind of “source” which is effectual in Nature, and which insists that the mind is an “inner” realm, even though it is in no way spatial, is incomprehensible. pg 29
- We under stand relatively well what it is for a person to express such things as feelings, emotions, attitudes, moods, etc. But if we say that sonatas, poems, or paintings also express those sorts of things either we are saying something patently false or we are saying something true in an uninformative, misleading, and therefore pointless way. pg 30
- For to say of works of art that they express those sorts of things seems to imply that they are very much like persons. Therefore, unless we believe that philosophers who think of art as expression believe the unbelievable, that is, that art has feelings, attitudes, and moods and can express them, we must believe that such philosophers are trying, however inadequately, to come to grips with genuine truths about art. pg30
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