Full Idea
It is only when we cease to regard the objects in a landscape as means to anything that we can feel the landscape artistically.
Gist of Idea
We only see landscapes as artistic if we ignore their instrumental value
Source
Clive Bell (Art [1913], II.I)
Book Reference
Bell,Clive: 'Art' [nk 2010], p.29
A Reaction
This sounds as if only the exploitative attitude blocks the artistic view, but I would expect the scientific view (of an ecologist, for example) to do the same.