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“Kant noted that we typically apply labels or concepts to the world to classify sensory inputs that suit a purpose. ... Beautiful objects do not serve ordinary human purposes, as plates and spoons do. A beautiful rose pleases us, but not because we necessarily want to eat it or even pick it for a flower arrangement. Kant’s way of recognizing this was to say that something beautiful has purposiveness without a purpose’.”

Cynthia Freeland, Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction
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Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction(Chinese and English) Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Cynthia A. Freeland
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