You’ve heard it said, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Beauty is subjective. Beauty is discovered within ourselves, and then projected outward.
And, if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then so is ugly. Ugly is the antithesis, the opposite, of beauty. Ugly and beauty are conjoined like two sides of one coin just as are all opposites, such as hot and cold, up and down, in and out. One gives contrast and definition to the other. And ugly too, like beauty, is subjective, and projected outward.
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us or we find it not.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson