Can a stone plucked from a riverbed be beautiful? Why? If you look closely, it is imperfect. If you look around you can find others, very similar. Perhaps any

Can a stone plucked from a riverbed be beautiful? Why? If you look closely, it is imperfect. If you look around you can find others, very similar. Perhaps any river could have produced it. It isn't saying anything. It isn't telling you anything. It isn't being anything other than a stone. Yet surely, it can be an object of beauty, causing thought, curiosity, contemplation and feelings. If a stone, why not a canvas deliberately created from inspiration and feelings? Isn't abstract art even more artful than simply copying what your eyes can see?