We ought to pay attention only to the intrinsic properties of a work of art  Its other, extrinsic properties are irrelevant to our aesthetic interactions with it  For example, when we look at a painting we should consider only what is directly presented in our experience of it
What is really aesthetically relevant, ttherefore, is not what a painting symbolizes, but what it directly presents to experience
Only an artwork's intrinsic properties are relevant to our aesthetic interactions with it.