Definition Essay on Beauty

The old proverb states that beauty is in the eye of the beholder; that is, there cannot be such thing as objective beauty and the one man’s idea of what is beautiful may be considerably different from what somebody else thinks about it. However, through the course of time there have been certain concepts that, although allowing the understanding, always limited beauty with certain boundaries. And even though there exist ideas of beauty that are very, very different from what the majority of people think, it is still so: there is majority that shares more or less definite opinion and minority that have unusual opinions of their own.

I think that the only safe definition of beauty is a kind of harmony of form that makes a thing pleasant to look at for ourselves. Not for the majority, because its opinion tends to change. If, for example, we look at the ideals of woman’s beauty of the Renaissance painters or Greek sculptors, the majority of modern people – both men and women – would be somewhat disgusted. The only thing that is absolute is our own opinion, however paradoxical it may sound.

But still, even judging by our previous example, there are some aspects that…