# Quote — John Dewey, Art as Experience

> Well both original seizure and subsequent critical discrimination have equal claims, each to its own complete development and must not be forgotten that direct and unreasoned impression comes first. There is such occasions something of the quality of the wind that bloweth where it listeth. Sometimes it comes and sometimes it does not, even in the presence of the same object. It cannot be forced and when it does not arrive it is not wise to seek to recover by direct action the first fine rapture.

- Author: [John Dewey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-dewey.md)
- Book: [Art as Experience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-dewey/art-as-experience.md)
- Page: 151
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Dewey#Art_as_Experience_(1934)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-dewey/art-as-experience/well-both-original

## More from this book

> Naturalism is a word of many meetings in philosophy as well as in art. like most isms — classicism and romanticism, idealism and realism in art — it’s has become an emotional term, a war cry of partisans.

p. 157 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-dewey/art-as-experience/naturalism-is-a-word.md)

> The recurrence of relations—not of elements—in different contexts, which constitutes transposition is qualitative and hence directly experienced in perception.

p. 219 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-dewey/art-as-experience/the-recurrence-of-relations-not.md)

> Even the eye that is artificially trained to see color as color, apart from things that colors qualify, cannot shut out the resonances and transfers of value.

p. 126 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-dewey/art-as-experience/even-the-eye.md)