Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that imagination is the key to experiencing beauty, implying that all forms of art influence our emotions through this imaginative process.
Eduard Hanslick suggests that our capacity to perceive beauty comes not from direct observation, but rather from our imagination. This implies that art, in all its forms, has a profound effect on our emotions, as it engages our imaginative faculties, allowing us to connect with and feel the essence of what is artistically presented to us.
In practice
During an art class, a teacher may use this quote to inspire students to explore their imagination.
A typical TV show is always about protecting the franchise - it's all about stretching it out as long as you can take it. And it's about taking the characters in any given hour as far as you can take them, but then resetting them more or less back to zero so at the beginning of the next week, so they're still the character you know and love.
I'll never get bored of seeing flawed women on the screen.
I'm afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people tell me that such and such a scene or story is comical, I tend to gape. I did not intend comedy - ever, as far as I know. It's probably all a mistake. I am essentially a lugubrious writer. Ha ha!
The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
I often use nameless places in my work as a way of allowing the readers to create more of the novel and to make it potentially about their experiences, what they know, a city that they have perhaps seen on television.
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