Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Paul Klee

Relativism - the doctrine that truths exist in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute.

Perspective - a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.

As I read the above quote from German artist Paul Klee, I believed it to be one of the most foolish statements ever published. And yet, without realizing it, his distorted views mirrored my own. I fail to see the possibility of my “beauty” because the physical attributes of others consistently put mine to shame. And therefore, in me, there existed no beauty, none at all. But we are not human cut-outs of the same mold, and beauty is intrinsic; it’s not to be sorted and ranked.