Eduard Hanslick

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound. ”

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. ”

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. ”