Georgia O'Keeffe said, "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way -- things I had no words for". This is close to my view.

Seems to me, Beauty is a property of Art. To quote Buckminster Fuller, "When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.  But when I've finished, if the solution isn't beautiful, I know it's wrong." 

Any solution graced with Beauty is Art. This is regardless of whether it seems affirming, joyful, dark or even very deeply disturbing.

Creation is a process of Beauty- just as a snowfall creates its beauty.  That Beauty exists in Art long after the act of creation is over, likely comes in some part from freezing a moment in the beauty of the making. Yet this begs a more fundamental question whose form and answer takes shape in the Art object itself. 

Means to make Art once, frees a mind to do it again and again. However, when art makers maintain an easily identified 'style', the tedious refinements of their technique soon dilute or suffocate the very objects they aspired to create. And this process shuts out a fundamental property of Art- its insistent, endless revelation in fresh new aspects of Beauty. 

Exposing this second property, something to do with making anew, is an artist's raison d'être, obligation, and ultimate reward. 

- Thomas Kite, 2008