Beauty, in any case, is subjective and exists only in the eye of the beholder.

The sentence asserts an explicitly subjectivist view of aesthetic judgment: beauty is not a property residing in objects themselves but a response generated by perceivers. By tying beauty to “the eye of the beholder,” it emphasizes variability across individuals and cultures, implying that disputes about beauty often reflect differences in sensibility, upbringing, or context rather than discoverable facts. Framed this way, “beauty” functions like a projection of preference or feeling, not an objective feature. The claim also implicitly challenges attempts to ground aesthetics in universal standards, suggesting that aesthetic evaluation is closer to psychology (how we experience) than to metaphysics (what things are).