My first reflection

Blog idea - What is beauty?  My entire life I never thought to try and describe what beauty is to me.  And when this was asked of me, the words were elusive.  I felt like whatever I wrote down was going to be an insult to the experience of beauty.   Everyone in the class starting writing things down and I kept staring at my blank page.  Time was running out and at the last second all I could come up with was “something that awakens you”.  Which of course was a letdown.  Is this striving to come closer to an adequate expression of our experiences with beauty the foundation of art?