Sketch a Day: Beauty: In the Eye of the Beholder
22 Feb
Beauty: In the Eye of the Beholder
Of course, I am not referring to the Dungeons & Dragons creature of the same name. The quote originated in the 3rd century B.C.E. in Greece, and was re purposed by numerous English dramatists beginning in the 16th century. The most succinct philosophical use of this phrase originated from David Hume, who wrote in his Essays, Moral and Political:
“Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.”
Nice!
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but art is what I tell you it is! :)