On entering into the art object but leaving empty handed

But what is dis-covered instead is a discipline that throughout its history has worked at the con-ceptual undergirding
of standards of beauty, the sublime, taste,
art's
dignity,
and
so on,
while
failing
to
achieve
the
standard
of the
experience
of
what
it
purports
to
treat. The suspicion is irrepressible that either aesthetics is

the work of the will-
fully
deaf, blind, and insensate or that art is under a spell that prohibits its inner
comprehension, as if here one is permitted entry as nowhere else only on the con-dition that one leave empty-handed and never be able to say what the
difference
is between it and just having been distracted