What is Beauty?
By Rebecca Burns
11 April 2007
Beauty can be defined in many ways, in the dictionary beauty is defined as "the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest)". Though it really all depends on who you are talking to.
What I find beautiful may not be so to the next person and vice versa. It is of the opinion that as a Photographer you look for what is beautiful, or seem to be a rebel by thinking outside the box and looking for what may not be considered beautiful only to show it can be in some light.
However I am neither, I see the world as beautiful, everything, every last thing in it is beautiful. That may be thought of as naive, but really it's just being wordly and openminded. I am aware that the world is both good and bad, the difference is that i can see the beauty in even the darkest and what is considered the most unattractive of things. The world in itself is beautiful, all the workings and wonders of it, the people, the insects and animals, the emotion, all things deceased, and living. The point is, is that no matter what, someone will always have something different to say "one man's trash is another man's treasure" or "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" but to deny that all things hold a unique and individual beauty would be to deny that beauty exists at all.
Beauty is supposed to be universal meaning it can be found everywhere, or in the most unexpected of places, all across the universe. It doesn't matter if it's never acknowledged, all it has to do is be, just be itself and it's already beautiful. To not care about what the rest of the world thinks, or to listen to the rules and regulations of what is said to be beautiful, that is what in reality is True Beauty
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