The exhilaration of a direct aesthetic experience indicates the depth of human mentality to which that
experience goes. A work of art, or anything that affects us as art does, may truly be said to 'do something to
us', though not in the usual sense which aestheticians rightly deny—giving us emotions and moods. What it
does to us is to formulate our conceptions of feeling and our conceptions of visual, factual and audible reality
together