The artist has some internal experience that produces a
poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work,
which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it's a very new,
not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical
to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. That idea comes from an
over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.

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