The meaning of art, its nature, rôle, and value (1913)
Gaultier, Paul, b. 1872, Baldwin, H., Baldwin, E. · London, G. Allen & Company ltd. · leaf 72
the point of viewof the dominance of our aesthetic feeling over allthe elements which compose the work of art—just as Amphion put stories together only by therhythm of his song—we cannot compare, andmuch less confound, the harmony which belongsto it with the symmetry which the reason imposes ;nor… … o ^ ^ b - WHAT IS ART? 31 of art does not consist in ornamentation or decora-tion, which, on the contrary, tend to destroyits unity ; the Parthenon, for example, of whichthe simplicity is unquestionable, is a masterpiece,while the Zwinger is far from being one. Beauty is so constitutive of the work…
Art · Aesthetics
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