When we come into contact with a significant work of art, we become recipients of its charm, radiance, and power, which evoke an emotional response. In this case, the emotion means joy; it means complex joy, unique joy, great and profound joy. The organism must obviously react to this. A common way to respond is to communicate with someone else who we think will share the same emotion with us. This communication must take the form of words, so the emotion will be altered in some way; it will not have its original integrity. Another way, which happens more often to some and less to others, or never, is tears—so-called tears of joy. Having tears is not an indication of deficiency; I am not talking about crying, which is a more nervous reaction, a reaction of the organism that needs to be released, to get rid of, to unload this very intense emotion that weighs it down, a reaction that varies in intensity depending on the time in which the person lives, their psyche, and all that. Obviously, it is not an indication of quality or sensitivity, but in this way, I want to reassure my students who have often asked me why they have noticed this phenomenon in themselves. Many artists have referred to tears. Kazuo Ono, a great Japanese dancer and choreographer, wrote that he doesn't care if the viewer understands anything from his work; it is enough for him if they start crying. Tadeusz Kantor, also a great figure in theater from Poland, who was both an actor and director, said that to stage a performance, he starts with the music he has chosen for it, listens to it for hours until tears start running down his cheeks, and then he begins to create the performance. Therefore, the relationship of tears of joy, the release of our organism, and the quality, the emotion of an artwork is very well known and accepted. We should not feel awkward when this happens to us nor should we think that when it does not happen, we have not been sufficiently moved. It is simply a manifestation, a release of the organism in response to a great intensity.