This is contrary to the aim of art, which is to facilitate will-less contemplation of the Ideas.
If the subject can do this, and achieves will-less contemplation of the Ideas which express themselves in these threatening things, then the subject experiences a "state of elevation"—this is the feeling of the sublime.
God's creation occurred after his contemplation of the same ideas, which are known only partially by men but are completely known to God.
"Clouds," written and directed by Don Thompson, is so eager to impel our contemplation of its big ideas (whatever they may be) that it neglects to give its story much in the way of interest or credibility.
It excludes leisure, tranquility, permits no unexciting pursuits, no contemplation, no slow maturing of ideas, no perfectioning of individual style.
"Only idealism — the contemplation of life through the idea of the spirit, through the idea of divinity and religion — can explain art," he wrote.
"I just think that my generation is gonna be the worst," he says, finally emerging from his thicket of contemplation with the idea he has been chasing.
Because Stoppard knows what Bardolisers do not: that the intellectual effort should not come in the comprehension of ideas, but their contemplation.
Its lively public spaces reaffirm that enlightenment comes from the free exchange of ideas, not just inward contemplation.
Since the mid-1970s, Lively has been folding philosophical contemplation into the psychological analysis of her characters, melding the novel of ideas with the droll novel of manners.
Although not always explicit in his writings, Schlegel constantly stresses the idea that in the contemplation of a work of art, the spectator must still perceive the craftedness of the whole; i.e. the difference between reality and illusion.
