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Can beauty be measured? in any way shape or form? even if its subjective to one person's ideas... can it still be measured? Or is beauty an abstract sort of thing that one cannot put a value on?
Originally posted by Gale17
Can beauty be measured? in any way shape or form? even if its subjective to one person's ideas... can it still be measured? Or is beauty an abstract sort of thing that one cannot put a value on?
Originally posted by Sikz
If we can DEFINE beauty, then we must have somehow measured it, or we could not differentiate between it and it's opposite...
Originally posted by Gale17
Can beauty be measured? in any way shape or form? even if its subjective to one person's ideas... can it still be measured? Or is beauty an abstract sort of thing that one cannot put a value on?
Originally posted by Gale17
Can beauty be measured? in any way shape or form? even if its subjective to one person's ideas... can it still be measured? Or is beauty an abstract sort of thing that one cannot put a value on?
selfAdjoint said:A fact known to Shakespeare. "There is no Beauty but has some strangeness i' the proportion".
THANOS said:Beauty is only beautiful to you, sure people can share views of beauty with other people and face it, if you disagree with what an other thinks as beautiful then it is not beatiful in your opinion. So beauty only has meaning to the person judging it and no one esle.
selfAdjoint said:A fact known to Shakespeare. "There is no Beauty but has some strangeness i' the proportion".
mee said:I saw on a documentary that much of beauty (I hope I get this correct) is often seen as the ratio of 1:1.618 or some such thing for body parts. Something like that.
0TheSwerve0 said:I haven't read through all these, but the bit about music chords caught my eye. It reminded me of a discussion in music class where we came to the conclusion that the reason some pieces are more beautiful than others is because the dissonance resolves into consonance. Of course, you can have just consonance, but it seems that greater beauty is created through the progress of imperfection to perfection. Through resolution. In that way, imperfection serves a great purpose.
Stevo said:Yet many pieces which are technically well composed are boring. Take Carl Czerny, for example. He wrote thousands of pieces, all skillfully composed. But none reached anywhere near the heights of his great teacher