On Beauty, by Frederick Turner

Read an online article, On Beauty, by Frederick Turner and reprinted from Rebirth Of Value.

What I gathered out of it:

“..beauty is an illusion in the eye of the beholder, an eye preconditioned by social convention and economic interest.”

“People see (hear, touch, taste, smell) the beautiful, and recognize it by a natural intuition and a natural pleasure.”

“This ‘natural intuition’ is for us human beings activated, sensitized, and deepened by culture, that is, a natural capacity of the nervous system now incorporates a cultural feedback loop, and also uses the physical world, through art and science, as part of its own hardware.”