 Robert Hopkins has responded to this objection by recognizing that perception is a more complex affair in the case of “perceiving works of art” than are those perceptions we ordinarily have occasion to experience. The important thing is that perceptions of works of art have a kind of conceptual content that requires justification—of the sort that critics can supply by appeal to premises about the work (Hopkins 2007). Another attempt to respond to the objection is to argue that criticism provides us with reasons—premises—aimed at getting us to act toward works of art in ways that might best be construed “particular acts of looking, contemplating, listening, reflecting, or otherwise engaging with the artwork” (Cross 2017: 304, emphasis added).