"Art as Experience" by John Dewey,1934

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When experience is satisfactory,
when it combines memory of the past with anticipation of the future,
when it is an achievement of the organism in the environment in which it functions,
the experience is an experience.
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Any experience which is,
in this unified and consummatory way,
an experience is an aesthetic experience.
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Art is to be understood as an experience made possible by the organizing and unifying process in which the artist engages ;
the spectator meets the interest of the artist with an interest of his own in the reciprocal process of going through a similar operation.
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Art supplies mediums of communication,
making community of experience possible.
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All arts share a common form : they are organized toward a unified experience ;
they all operate through sensory mediums such as stone,water colors,oil paints,
and words ; and they are all concerned with space and time.
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