"Whatever the object may be (thing, flower, animal or man), it is represented and judged not in terms of its usefulness, not according to any purpose it may possibly serve, and also not in view of its 'internal' finality or completeness. In the aesthetic imagination, the object is represented as free from all such relations and properties, as freely being itself. The experience in which the object is thus 'given' is totally different from the every-day as well as scientific experience; all links between object and the world of theoretical and practical reason are severed, or rather suspended. This experience, which releases the object into its 'free' being, is the work of the free play of imagination."

(from Eros and Civilization, 1966)

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