There is no essential distinction between arts and fine arts. If a man transforms preexisting realities, then he is an artist, and the work of art is, says Dante, by reason of this act, a godlike creation.
Nature also is beautiful.
For the universe realizes and expresses order and purpose. But beauty is not studied from the special point of view of nature or of art. Scholastic philosophy considers it in a general way, and esthetics becomes a department of metaphysics and psychology. Let us select therefrom some special points. Beauty belongs to certain external things.