In order to understand the aesthetic in its ultimate and approved forms one must begin with it in the raw in the events and scenes that hold the attentive eye and ear arousing ones interest and affording enjoyment as one looks and listens Yet so extensive and subtly pervasive are the ideas that set art itself upon a remote pedestal that many people would be repelled rather than pleased if told that they enjoyed their casual recreations in part at least because of their aesthetic qualityThe arts which today have most vitality for the average person are things he or she does not take to be arts for instance the movies jazz comic strips and too frequently lurid newspaper accounts of the weeks events For when what they know as art is relegated to the museum and gallery the unconquerable impulse towards experiences enjoyable in themselves finds such outlet as the daily environment provides Many people who protest against the museum conception of art still share the fallacy from which that conception springs For the popular notion comes from a separation of art from the objects and scenes of ordinary experience that many theorists and critics pride themselves upon holding and even elaborating The times when select and distinguished objects are closely connected with the products of usual vocations are the times when appreciation of the former is most rife and most keen