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For to perceive, a beholder must create his own experience · Sep 18, 12:16

John Dewey, Art as Experience, p.54

For to perceive, a beholder must create his own experience. And his creation must include relations comparable to those which the original producer underwent. And his (sic) creation must include relations comparable to those which the orginal producer underwent. These are not the same in any literal sense. But with the perceiver, as with the artist, thre must be an ordering of elements of the whole that is in form, although not in details, the same as the process of organization the creator of the work consciously experienced. Without an act of recreation the object is not perceived as a work of art.