Art is the activity of creating or appreciating beauty.
The human mind has the three faculties of intellect, emotion, and will, corresponding to which there are different areas of cultural activity. The purpose for which God created human beings and the universe was to obtain joy through loving an object. Likewise, it is for the purpose of obtaining joy that human beings create or appreciate works of art as their objects. This is in agreement with the definition of art in Unification Thought. However, there are cases where, even though the object gives stimulation to the subject, the subject does not receive it emotionally.