Not least, the band's business is music, the immaterial medium toward which all art, in the Romantic scheme of things, aspires.

He believed art aspired to the condition of music.

You can see the roots of the relationship in the belief of 19th-century Romantics that all art should aspire to the condition of music.

All art aspires to the condition of timelessness, but what, in a house, is time?

Walter Pater said "all art constantly aspires to the condition of music".

All art, thought Jerry, aspired to the condition of Muzak.

Done this well, with intelligence, wit and thematic and cultural integrity, sign language has the power to do what any art aspires to: affect people's attitudes.

Ms. Bausch's art aspires to the condition of poetry in order to express the inexpressible.

While art aspires to be pure, design is a cheerful mongrel.

If Walter Pater were alive today, he might well conclude that all art aspires to the condition of movie titles.