Beauty

Have you ever sometimes idly wondered about whether or not there is such a thing as objective beauty? Thoreaux reckoned that 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.' Maybe there is something in that, in the sense that the perceived beauty of a subject is dependant on the capacity of the 'observee' to appreciate the beauty of a piece of art, music, writing -even another person.
Perhaps it is easier with the arts as 'finished' products that we interact with and I would go with the 9th century philosopher, Abu Sulaiman al-Davani: “Music and singing do not produce in the heart that which is not in it.”
People however are more complicated, I suppose. Perhaps with regards to inter-human perception of beauty, it is even more dependant on the observee than the subject: 'Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.' (Rabbi Julius Gordon)
I'm not sure, now....