"Maintainable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that they can judge of the beautiful, are right; but the theory on which they found their affirmation is not maintainable. They conceive of the beautiful, that is, of aesthetic value, as of something placed outside the aesthetic activity; as if it were a model or a concept which an artist realizes in his work, and of which the critic avails himself afterwards in order to judge ...
— Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic • Benedetto Croce |
