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(1) It was Schopenhauer who first said that all arts aspire to
the condition of music; that remark has often been repeated, and
has been the cause of a good deal of misunderstanding, but it
does express an important truth. Schopenhauer was thinking of
the abstract qualities of music; (2) in music, and almost in music
alone, it is possible for the artist to appeal to his audience
directly, without the intervention of a medium of communica-
tion in common use for other purposes.
The architect must
express himself in buildings which have some utilitarian pur-
pose. The poet must use words which are bandied about in the
daily give-and-take of conversation.
The painter usually ex-
presses himself by the representation of the visible world.
(3) Only the composer of music is perfectly free to create a work
of art of his own consciousness, and with no other aim than to
But all artists have this same intention, the desire to
please.
please; and art is most simply and most usually defined as an
attempt to create pleasing forms.
一HERBERT READ, The Meaning of Art
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