Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, and is an experience of the subject. At the same time, the beautiful is not something merely subjective like a feeling of pleasantness, for it arises and subsists in the observer only with respect to an object (cf. SW IV: 602). What the aesthetic conception articulates about the object does not “depend on any individuality, but rather solely on the quality of the represented [object]” (SW VI: 273). Suppose I declare: “Rembrandt’s Aristotle with a Bust of Homer is beautiful”. On the one hand, the beauty of the painting is something that lies not in the painting, but in my, the beholder’s experience of it. But the predicate, “is beautiful”, does not attach to my experience, but to its object, the painting. I do not claim that my experience is beautiful, but that the painting is. Nor am I merely saying that it seems beautiful to me; rather, the claim pertains to the painting itself, viz. that it is beautiful.