So what is beauty? “We have so many reasons for being suspicious of beauty. Beauty is elitist, divisive, it implies other things are ugly. Beauty in modern thought is tied to a notion of ‘correct’ aesthetic judgment whose founding text, Kant’s ‘Critique of Judgment,’ argued that the only true taste is one that is unaffected by the pressures of real life and hence free to recognise the beautiful. This may have been a good career guide for the ambitious cultural functionary in 18th-century Germany, but doesn’t seem to have much relevance for us now.” – The Guardian