The work of art leaves the domain of representation

Every object, every thing, must see its own identity swallowed up in difference, each being no more than a difference between differences. Difference must be shown differing. We know that modern art tends to realise these conditions: in this sense it it becomes a veritable theatre of metamorphoses and permutations. A theatre where nothing is fixed, a labyrinth without a thread (Ariadne has hung herself). The work of art leaves the domain of representation in order to become "experience", transcendental empiricism or science of the sensible.

Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (Continuum, 2004) p. 68