Moderators moresko Posted November 14, 2013 Moderators Share Posted November 14, 2013 What is beauty, and who do we describe as beautiful? When Margaret Wolfe Hungerford coined the phrase "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", what do you think she meant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chishlom Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 I think life is all about art,we see things differently and in numerous perspective, what u like may not be what I like, what u call beautiful,is what I may call ugly. so if u staring at something and to u its beautiful, then that's what counts,, now that I try explainin this, m getting confused Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lala1 Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Beauty is mostly a societal construct, what Europeans consider beautiful, may not be (actually IS NOT) what West Africans consider beauty. There's a lot of homogenization of beauty going on though. You can blame globalization and an increased obsession with the physical for that. As to what beauty is, and the saying "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", it is relative. Just as with societies as mentioned above, so is it with individuals. Beauty cannot be measured because it varies with each individual. What I consider beautiful (appealing to my visual sense) may not be what you will consider beautiful. A definition of beauty for me would "anything that appeals to the senses, whether visual or otherwise" :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chishlom Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 point well noted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xenastar Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 People envision beauty diferently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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