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Full Idea
In the beautiful we always perceive the intrinsic and primary form of animate and inanimate nature, that is to say Plato's Ideas thereof. …When an aesthetic perception occurs the will completely vanishes from consciousness.
Gist of Idea
The beautiful is a perception of Plato's Forms, which eliminates the will
Source
Arthur Schopenhauer (Parerga and Paralipomena [1851], XIX:205)
Book Ref
Schopenhauer,Arthur: 'Essays and Aphorisms [from Pand P]', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1970], p.155
A Reaction
An essential Schopenauer idea. Iris Murdoch said something similar.