Aesthetics Definition - This essay was simply to personally define the term aesthetics for my art appreciation class.

Aesthetics simply means relating to, appreciating, or perceiving the beautiful. Beauty, if it can be defined simply, means whatever captures your heart for that moment in time that you have been blessed. We are always told that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I think it is the perspective of that eye that makes anything even more beautiful. Beauty can be something to perceive or observe, but only when the spectator becomes …

…the saying "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is true, then things like hearing a baby's laugh, and seeing a child's first steps; or looking into your lover's eyes must surely be things of beauty. But when it is all said and done, in those last fleeting moments of life, if there is a loved one to offer a hand to hold, then all things transcend from being beautiful, and they become priceless.