It teases rather than resolves. The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. And so, in order to return sensation to our limbs, in order to make us feel objects, to make a stone feel stony, man has been given the tool of art. The purpose of art, then, is to lead us to a knowledge of a thing through the organ of sight instead of recognition. The perceptual process in art has a purpose all its own and ought to be extended to the fullest.
Art is a means of experiencing the process of creativity.
The artifact itself is quite unimportant . Here is a brief list of the interpretive choices made in this passage by both Lemon and Reis and Sher. They do so in terms of their schema of perception. This is because it implies that it is the stone and not the perceiver that serves as the epistemological center of the relationship. The artifact itself is quite unimportant.