The difference between aesthetic experience and aesthetic experience is the difference between traditional aesthetics and modern aesthetics.

Aesthetic experience is a spiritual activity that runs through creation, appreciation, consumption and dissemination. Aesthetic experience is an internal state of integration and transcendence between the subject and the aesthetic object as an aesthetic object.

Western modern aesthetics can be divided into two major types of interpretation of aesthetic experience: one is the subjective interpretation, emphasizing the role of aesthetic attitude; the other is the objective interpretation, emphasizing the role of the aesthetic object. In the view of the objectivists, the main source of aesthetic experience lies in the aesthetic qualities of the aesthetic object itself. Aesthetic experience is basically a passive perceptual experience. On the other hand, in the view of subjectivists, beauty and aesthetic experience are one and the same thing, beauty is not an ontological concept, and aesthetic experience is not an epistemological concept. For example, the American aesthetician H. Parker (1885-1949) thought that both aesthetic experience and beauty are one and the same. Aesthetic experience is not derived from the aesthetic qualities of the aesthetic object, but from the experience of affirmation of the aesthetic attitude on the object.