Quotes by Wilhelm Worringer

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The value of a work of art, what we call its beauty, consists—generally speaking—in its values ​​of happiness. These happiness values ​​stand, of course, in a causal relationship with the soul needs they satisfy.

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The work of art stands as an independent organism of the same value, alongside nature and, in its deepest and most intimate essence, unrelated to it, so long as by nature is meant the visible surface of things...

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The natural beauty should in no case be regarded as a condition of the artistic work, even if in the course of evolution it seems to have become a precious factor for art, and even from certain points of view exactly identical with it.

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Each people creates in its art ideal possibilities for triggering its vital feeling.

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In the forms of a work of art we enjoy ourselves. Aesthetic pleasure is objectified self-pleasure.