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Taking advantage of the dual meaning of the word experience, at the same time ordeal and acquisition, this text considers what is accumulated during aesthetic experiences as well as what can facilitate the aesthetic experience. It emerges that the aesthetic experience is always more or less linked to an aesthetic inexperience. It is not possible to evaluate aesthetic experiences in order to decide in what way some would be better than others; in fact, some dispositions that could have facilitated the aesthetic experience, such as an increased attention to one's feeling and perceiving body, would even tend to inhibit the aesthetic experience. The text pays particular attention to David Hume's empiricism and John Dewey's pragmatism.