The article is written in the form of a dialogue between a literary critic and an art theorist. The subject of conversation is the specificity of perception of works of different types of art, their existence in time and in the representation of the viewer, listener or reader. The authors, claiming the specifics of different types of art, tend to move away from the stereotypes of eternal values, the authorities of geniuses and the formal foundations of the so-called synthesis of the arts. The thesis is approved on the duration of the process of perception and understanding of a work of art. Such artistic communication lasts throughout the whole life of a person and even a whole generation of viewers, readers, listeners.