The cheetah's beauty comes from its dedication to the art of hunting.

The cheetah is a very beautiful animal, but the cheetah isn't trying to be beautiful. He is trying to be artful.
The cheetah's art is catching prey. To do well in his art, he must be fast and stealthy.
To be fast, the cheetah must respect the laws of aerodynamics.
So he grows a slender body, and a small, flattened head, and long, thin legs, and a large counterweight tail.
And then, to be stealthy, he paints himself with deadly camouflage. Beautiful! But beauty was never in his mind.
The cheetah's beauty follows from, and proceeds out of, his devotion to his art of hunting.