"In order correctly to define art, it is necessary, first
of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and to consider
it as one of the conditions of human life. Viewing it in this way we
cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of intercourse
between man and man.
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of
relationship both with him who produced, or is producing, the art, and
with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive
the same artistic impression.
[…]
The activity of art is based on the fact that a man, receiving
through his sense of hearing or sight another man’s expression of
feeling, is capable of experiencing the emotion which moved the man who
expressed it. … And it is upon this capacity of man to receive another
man’s expression of feeling and experience those feelings himself, that
the activity of art is based."
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