"...When men finally began to discuss the problem of the locus of beauty, it did not take long before the deadening academic skepticism, which necessarily accompanied the idea of beauty as a static absolute that had been revealed once and forever and given into the custody of a self-elected group, gave place to a recognition that the unfolding and fading of beauty is an externally living, growing activity participated in at all times by all mankind as an evolutionary process of self-discovery and self-realization. The only thing essential to that expression of human character we call art is its constant state of `becoming', which is as indefinable as life itself." (Ivins, William M., Jr. Art and Geometry, P. 130).

You find a similar observation written about 60 years later by James Paul Gee in his book, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy.