I have a friend blessed with an intellect as keen as a drill, who, though he takes an interest in aesthetics, has never during a life of almost forty years been guilty of an aesthetic emotion.
Before we feel an aesthetic emotion for a combination of forms, do we not perceive intellectually the rightness and necessity of the combination?
Perhaps there is none; for perhaps they have never had an aesthetic emotion to confuse with their other emotions.
But it would have no more power to create in us an aesthetic emotion than an exquisitely composed bas-relief.
To attempt to define form by transcendental terms, or even to credit form with esoteric significance, reveals an ignorance of the principles of aesthetic emotion.
His very facility perhaps accounts for his satisfaction with flat decoration, for it concentrated his interest on the actual pate and thereby precluded a deeper research into the psychology of aesthetic emotion.
Aesthetic emotion is that from which man lets himself be most easily diverted by love, so easy, almost fatal, is the passage from one to the other.
Aesthetic emotion, even in its purest, most disinterested form, is, then, merely a deviation of the genital emotion.
I speak of Significant Form in contradistinction to Insignificant Beauty--the beauty of gems or of a butterfly's wing, the beauty that pleases, but does not seem to provoke that peculiar thrill that we call an aesthetic emotion.
The poetry of Morris has value for people who have never known what it is to feel an aesthetic emotion, and his life was superbly useful to his fellow-men.
The very worst attitude towards art is that of the holiday-maker who comes into its presence with no ulterior interest or business, and nothing but the hope of an aesthetic emotionwhich is most often denied him.
This saving grace of the tourist, and (as we shall see) this pitfall of the art-expert, is what I propose to call the Transferability of Aesthetic Emotion.
Be this last as it may, it is desirable that the Reader should accept, and possibly verify for himself, the psychological fact of the storage and transfer of aesthetic emotion.
Thus the conditions of both factors of aesthetic emotion tend to induct pleasure.
The intensity of concentration caused by the unity of form fuses with this suggested vividness of feeling from content and material, and the whole is felt as intensity of aesthetic emotion.
In the light of the just-won definition of aesthetic emotion, it is interesting to examine some of the well-known modern aesthetic theories.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aesthetic emotion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
