Science does include shared perceptions, but solely its based on individuals own personal perceptions. Yes definitely, and for the same reason that science is creative. It requires the process of seeing. Emotions are manifested. There is visual stimuli and it takes creativity to perceive it in a certain way.
Emotions play a very important role.
Artists aren t hindered by a necessity to have a reproducible result. They don t have to prove anything. Emotions in science are kind of repressed. In the scientific process, they play a minimal role. Beauty is something that satisfies your expectations, but then goes beyond.