What's beauty?

[Hopeless_soul]

Overcoming the fear of a blank page. Spreading butter on your morning toast. A genuine kiss on the forehead of the person you admire the most.

 

[Johnnythefox]

Helping those in need.
Politeness and civility.
Respect for all things.
Giving instead of taking.
Humanely ending a living things suffering.

 

[Blowba]

When seeing the people who live in poverty helping others and sacrificing their needs for others

 

[Aesthler]

Colors
Nature
Love shared between two people
So much I can't think of or list

 

[ReadyasEver]

A smile from a child
Sunset over the ocean
Fall colors as the trees shed their leaves
Waterfalls
A sleeping puppy snuggled up to you
Flowers blooming in the spring
Duck parents taking their ducklings for a swim
Watching my grandparents hold hands on their 50th anniversary
The look in my wife's eyes so many years ago when I asked her to marry me
A kid riding a bike for the first time by himself
People who give compassion

 

[peachesNpoison]

discovering two problems that solve each other.

 

[Hunter]

Sunset
The symmetry and geometric patterns of of many flowers
A genuine look of tenderness in someone's eyes
Music

 

[MexicanTravels]

"Beauty = the disposition to elicit a beauty-response from a sense of beauty in such a way that the accuracy of the response can (in principle) be intersubjectively validated." -John H. Brown

For me beauty correlates with complexity:

University libraries filled with books according to various systems
A tightly curated group art show (preferably contemporary)
Fusion cuisine
Hybrid languages (e.g. Spanglish or Portuñol)
Global cities (Dubai, São Paulo, Mumbai)
Swamp and marsh ecosystems
Comparative literature journals
Essay films
Bilingual math dictionaries
Mark Bradford and Laura Owens paintings
Roberto Bolaño and Masha Gessen books
Honeydew bubble tea

 

[Pegasus]

The bottom of a Nembutal bottle.

 

[Smilla]

The bottom of a Nembutal bottle.

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