Nevertheless there is also an active side to artistic enjoyment, as in reading, for example. Without the spectator’s contemplation, or the reader’s reading, the artwork’s expression remains purely subjective. It becomes objective, manifesting its sense in actuality, only through the symbolic consumption of the audience. This act, however, is not passive: it mobilises the audience’s own power of expression and imagination. Reading, watching, or listening are, as Sartre puts it, “directed creation