What is Beauty?

Smoking my first pipe, a Dr. Grabow Viscount with some Erinmore Flake and Perique and wondering if there are any common notions that all people share about beauty. Have a great weekend - Cheers!

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[FreyofKtau]

Hi Frerrick,

are thats budgie in the background? Some wild ones thare in Australia in your yard?

I have 2 of them in a cage in my flat.

In Add. Beauty lies in the eye of the looker. Or better the beauty is always in your brain.

Greets from Germany

Manuel

[ContemplativePipe]

Hi Manuel, that is quite possible - I didn't take a great deal of notice at the time since there's always something making some sort of noise. There is a lot of bird life around here. Cheers! Ferrick

[ahmedsadik1983]

for me beauty is always been the things that i adore or astonish at that certain instance rather than a set of pre-assigned criteria however it have to be still acceptable to the surroundings nevertheless a person never know what is their personal preference unless they venture into the unknown and give it a try..

i love the erinmore flake and like u do i prefer them with a pinch of perique or orientals embedded in the middle of folded flake

cheers

ahmad

[ContemplativePipe]

Hi Ahmad, seems as though we have similar tastes in tobacco and pipes. Cheers!

[ManiacalMikal]

"Beauty is whatever causes the strings of my mind to resonate harmoniously." ~ MM

[ContemplativePipe]

Very nice MM - a quotable quote! Cheers!

[visheau]

Beauty can exist in almost anything and anywhere, but true beauty is defined by the self.

[JRidge420]

@JRidge420

-bly the only person to see this

[JRidge420]

Beauty is coming to a clearing in the woods of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan overlooking a crystal clear river just before sunset and the sky is bleeding a beautiful maroon and orange fading into the pinkish blue peripheral of the horizon you find a fallen tree and lightly brush the snow off and sit down packing your cheap yet trusted Dr Grabow packing it tight with billy bud striking a match and igniting a full body sensation of relief while you notice your footsteps and realize you're proba

[MYTHIRDSHADOW]

Is beauty really in the eye of the beholder? What if beauty, true universal beauty, is something that cannot be "seen" with the human senses? "beauty is whatever causes the strings of my mind to resonate harmoniously."-Maniacallmikal

What if the image of smeared feces on a white canvas causes ones "strings of their mind" to "resonate harmoniously"? So is that smeared feces true beauty? No, its still shit.

[Encounterpart]

I see beauty in Giger's paintings.

[MahkMahkMark]

I think harmony and balance is the base of beauty. When some thing is harmonious and balanced on several levels, it is considered "very beautiful". When something that is very beautiful has an unexpected element to it as well, it is considered "stunningly beautiful"!

[jamesejudy3]

Personally I think that enjoyment of perceived beauty is ultimately subjective to individuals or cultures, but concepts of beauty can be taught i.e. programmed. Studies have been done in the past where children from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds were instructed to pick "the prettiest dolls" from a selection and they mostly picked up the fair skinned blond dolls....

On a more positive note, art and music appreciation can be taught to the ignorant!, what makes "good art or classical music"

[muddywaters40]

Joffre:

Can not beauty be perceived in chaos and disorder as well? Conventional notions of harmony and balance can detract from beauty just as easily as they can contribute to it. Something can be beautiful because of the fact that it stands out from the flow of it's surroundings, and one's eye is naturally drawn to such things. This also can apply to when one is placed in a situation that would normally be out of their comfort zone, they in turn can be more open to perceive beauty than before.

[RequiemPipes]

Joffre's comment is spot on, if one understands harmony as a perfect balance between order and chaos (just a pinch of chaos, in my case). A slightly croocked tree is probably more harmonious than a perfect one. It's the personal taste in the order/chaos "percentual" balance that explains the subjectivity of the beauty concept.

Cheers

[thegirls321]

Deep question. I do believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder but that it is also a combination of asthetics and intrinsic beauty. It is relative...just so long as it's not your relative LOL! Nice vid and thanks.