Art As Experience

Art as Experienceis a pure philosophical book of all arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature.

The live creature:

In order to understand the meaning of artistic products, we have to forget them for a time, to turn aside from them and have recourse to the ordinary forces and conditions of experience that we do not usually regard as esthetic.

It is quite possible to enjoy flowers in their colored form and delicate fragrance without knowing anything about plants theoretically....