Full Idea
It is not what I call an aesthetic emotion that most of us feel, generally, for natural beauty. …Most people feel a very different kind of emotion for birds, flowers and butterfly wings from that we feel for pictures, pots, temples and statues.
Gist of Idea
Our feeling for natural beauty is different from the aesthetic emotion of art
Source
Clive Bell (Art [1913], I.I)
Book Reference
Bell,Clive: 'Art' [nk 2010], p.5
A Reaction
Not convinced. I think the main difference is our awareness that art is a human production, the result of choice, whereas nature is a given. Beethoven 9 and a good sunset don't seem to me far apart in our responses.