Pages

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Beauty is in the eye of the...

If you don't like metal music, does that mean metal music is bad? Similarly, if you don't like a certain piece of art, does that mean that it's not artistic?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Thus, what you see and judge something to be, is your perception of it. In the rhetoric cases above, metal music and that piece of art itself isn't bad.

It's that you don't like it.

Everybody has perception, but it is the knowledge of other perceptions, i.e., knowing that there are many ways of looking at one thing, that makes someone truly wise.

TRB
@trbetala

No comments:

Post a Comment