Full Idea
It was suggested that aesthetic experience isn't solely perceptual. It's infused by a cognitive but non-conceptual process described by Kant as involving the free play of the imagination and the understanding.
Gist of Idea
Aesthetic experience involves perception, but also imagination and understanding
Source
Stephen Davies (The Philosophy of Art (2nd ed) [2016], 1.2)
Book Reference
Davies,Stephen: 'The Philosophy of Art (2nd ed)' [Wiley Blackwell 2016], p.7
A Reaction
This fits literature very well, painting quite well, and music hardly at all.