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"People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it."
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Source: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.71, University of Chicago Press
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