This is not the place to discuss all the minutiae of Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation (1818). Crucial, for our purposes, is his concept of “das Reizende”, which will here be translated as “the stimulating.” The stimulating is “that which excites the will by directly presenting to it satisfaction, fulfillment” (Schopenhauer 1969 [1818]: 207). It ought to be shunned at all price in art, says Schopenhauer, because it 