I say that an artwork is either an arrangement of conditions intended to be capable of affording an experience with marked aesthetic character or (incidentally) an arrangement belonging to a class or type of arrangements that is typically intended to have this capacity.
The Aesthetic Point of View
by Monroe Beardsley
The true locus of creativity is not the genetic process prior to the work but the work itself as it lives in the experience of the beholder.
~ Monroe Beardsley