Although there are many researches on Levinas' artistic ideas, there are also many limitations and misunderstandings on it. Levinas points out in Existence and Existents that“art is the pursuit of the sense of exoticism”, which represents the gist of his artistic ideas. Although the existing researches have involved some ideas, further explanations are necessary. In this work, Levinas criticizes the“artistic imitation”and“artistic presentation”by describing the“sense of exoticism”stored in various art forms and works, indicating that“the pursuit of the sense of exoticism is the creative essence of art”.He compared the “sense of exoticism” of art to the “externality” of existence, and presented his phenomenological thinking and unique understanding of art: he rebuilt sensibility and oriented towards the other by removing the general form of things. Interpretation of this argument can effectively clarify the existing research problems: Levinas is not“anti-art”. However, the use of“heterogeneous aesthetics”to summarize its meaning is not accurate and easy to misunderstand. His emphasis on ethics does not imply that he supports the intervention of art in reality.