Quotation by

David Hume

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty

Understanding this quote AI Analysis

What we consider beautiful depends on our own thoughts and feelings rather than any quality the object has on its own. In other words, beauty is created by the person who looks at something, not by the thing itself.

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