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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead
Art, Patterns, Recognition
Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.