Schiller

On the Aesthetic Education of Man

The beautiful is to be neither more life, nor mere form, but living form, i.e., Beauty; for it imposes upon man the double law of absolute formality and absolute reality--consequently reason also makes the pronouncement: With beauty man shall only play, and it is with beauty only that he shall play. p.107

More than this: if man is ever to solve that problem of politics in practice he will have to approach it through the problem of the aesthetic, because it is only through Beauty that man makes his way to Freedom. p.9 ibid

The course of events has given the spirit of the age a direction which threatens to remove it ever further from the art of the Ideal. This kind of art must abandon actuality, and soar with becoming boldness above our wants and needs; for Art is a daughter of Freedom, and takes her orders from the necessity inherent in minds, not from the exigencies of matter. p. 7 ibid