What is beauty?

What is beauty? Beauty can be found in so many things around us. The beauty of a child's innocence, mother's love, caring eyes, graceful rivers and the flaky snow.

Beauty is a matter of perspective, it is subjective. Beauty is completely personal. What one thinks is beautiful someone else can think completely opposite.

For example, if you think that this vase is beautiful, someone may disagree with you, pointing out all the disadvantages of it.

What if someone likes green, while others don’t? What if he love red; but you hate it? What if I hate red beans, while others like their taste? Different people have different perception of things around us. For example, the perception of things of a particle physicist would be entirely different than the person who is unfamiliar with the atomic structure of materials.

Furthermore, I feel that beauty depends upon the mental state. For example, when you are about to take an important exam, nothing would seem beautiful to you. However, if you had a lucky day -- gotten full marks for exams, won a lottery etc, even the smallest things would seem beautiful to you.

"Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder". This is a very famous quote and is often heard.


Beauty is in the eye of the beholder in the sense that everyone finds beauty in different things around us. As said earlier, there is beauty in almost everyone and everything. It doesn't have to be physical beauty. Beauty can be inner beauty -- what's on the inside of a person, and how they treat others.

The media is hung up on the physical aspect of beauty, making people think they need to look a certain way in order to be considered beautiful but that's not at all true. Different people define beauty in many different ways. Anything can be beautiful if you think it is.

Personally, I feel that true beauty is not about physical appearance and materialistic things. I feel that true beauty lies in the heart and in the spirit, and no amount of money, makeup, surgery or false fronts can compete with it. For example, someone may have attractive features, but if he or she does not help people who are in need and look down on them, I do not think he or she is beautiful. Inner beauty is much more important than physical appearance. Our actions reflect on our personality.

In conclusion, I think that beauty is whatever you feel it to be. One person's impression of what is beautiful may be different than another's. Hence, no one is right or wrong with regards to beauty.