Beauty

[Papageno]

What is beauty? What drives humanity to pursuit it?
Someone (can't remember who) said that beauty touches man because it reminds him of his divine state from a past life.

[Lethevich]

What is beauty?

Too subjective and broad to define.

What drives humanity to pursuit it?

Because it's considered a positive thing.

Edit: Sorry for the bullshit answers, but it's nice to get to the core of the point ASAP.

[DavidW]

I agree that's very broad.  Narrow the point of this thread.  We're not having a drink at a bar, pontificating with no focus or sense because we're wasted.   

[Kullervo]

I agree that's very broad.  Narrow the point of this thread.  We're not having a drink at a bar, pontificating with no focus or sense because we're wasted.   

Speak for yourself, man!

[greg]

GMG is the classical music bar!

um, except i'll have a coke instead, i gotta drive you looney tunes home after all 

[Justin Ignaz Franz Bieber]

What is beauty?

truth, beauty & justice are the three most intangible, abstract concepts the human mind has ever invented. start a thread on it if you want but i don't think anyone will agree on anything.

[Mark]

Might beauty be an eternal principle, an ideal towards which we grope through our many artistic and other endeavours?

[George]

What is beauty?

[Mark]

No, I think that's called 'superficiality'.

[George]

No, I think that's called 'superficiality'.

Beauty is only skin deep. 

[DavidW]

Beauty is only skin deep. 

If I cut off someone's skin Hellraiser style, would I have stolen their beauty?   Wait then I could wear the skin Buffalo Bill style and then I'd be beautiful? hehehe ok I need my coffee.

[greg]

What is beauty?

(i don't know her, some girl who went to my school)
i'm trying to find some others from my school, but bleh! can't find them, and there's some good ones, although only a handful

[Michel]

God I love Scarlett.

[greg]

God I love Scarlett.

Scarlett? who's that? one of the pictures on this thread?

[George]

Scarlett? who's that? one of the pictures on this thread?

Yep.

She's the one in green and yellow. 

[sidoze]

girl next door. never understood the appeal of this

[prémont]

girl next door. never understood the appeal of this

Maybe the point is, that you are induced to believe, that she is within your reach, even if she isn´t (in the real world).

[DavidW]

girl next door. never understood the appeal of this

Familiarity breeds lust maybe.  You covet what you see on a daily basis but can't have.  I don't just a thought, or maybe I'm just remembering Silence of the Lambs.

[prémont]

Beauty is only skin deep. 

You are wrong, female beauty depends as well on shape as on surface, and even the quantity and the localisation of the subcutaneous fatty tissue is all-important for the shape, as well as the muscles and the skeleton. So female beauty depends on the entire body.

[caulfield]

girl next door. never understood the appeal of this

you are dissapointing.