not bad
i remember having conversations like this in my college art classes. Visual beauty really only touches on one aspect of the question though. I mean you could call a really touching image art even if it wasnt beautiful, it might be really graphic and abrasive in fact. literature is art, but books themselves arent visually beautiful and the greatest works of literary art tend to deal with thorny stuff that is not at all beautiful to look at. this kind of thing the more you think about the further you get from a conclusion. Anywho, i still liked it, its rare to see people being so earnest in their flashes, good change of pace ^_^