“While the beautiful draws our attention exclusively to itself … we seem to lose ourse-lves in the beautiful object; and precisely this loss, this forget-fulness of self, is the highest degree of pure and disinterested pleasure that beauty grants us. In that moment we sacrifice our individual confined being to a kind of higher being… Beauty in a work of art is not pure… until I contemplate it as something that has been brought forth entirely for its own sake, in order that it should be something complete in itself.”
Moritz
