Creative Expression of an Experience

Allow me to disagree here. Art is neither formulaic, nor goal oriented in nature. It may begin with a plan, however, just as with battle strategy, the plan doesn’t last past the first engagement with the enemy. Whether you try to control it, or whether you allow it to be improvisational and fluid, any piece of art is going to adapt and change throughout the process. Therefore the “fulfillment” of the finished product may have little to no resemblance to the intended, or planned, outcome.
A far better statement than art being goal oriented is that art is process oriented. It isn’t the applause at the end of a theater performance that fulfills the participants, but the arc through which the characters and the audience travels. This is similar to the fact that the rehearsal process is far more crucial and fulfilling to a performer than the actual performance, because it is therein that true discoveries are made, many of which are completely unexpected and therefore could not have been planned. A structure is necessary, true, for much of art to exist at all. However, as vines winding themselves around a truss, the freedom of a Bacchanalian exploration of thought, feeling, expression, and emotion, must be integrated into that structure for anything beyond a clinical shell of the motions of art to exist.