Conflict + beauty = interesting

A lovely quote from Arthur Hopcraft's The Football Man, a series of essays on the state of English football circa 1965:

What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality. It has conflict and beauty, and when those two qualities are present together in something offered for public appraisal they represent much of what I understand to be art.