What Is Beauty?

"If I sit on an airplane and the person next to me turns to me and says "What do you do?" and I say I am an artist that person usually tells me next, if they're not in the arts, that they've seen an impressionist painting and that they really like paintings of flowers and inside myself i'm cringing because...that's not my idea of art and I understand that that person is operating with a conservative view of beauty and what artistic practice should be." -Veritas Forum presentation, "Beauty in Art: Creativity, God, and Reality"