In the eye of the beholder?

One of the standard ways of dismissing beauty from serious consideration, in theology and elsewhere, is to assert that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’. Beauty, like taste, is subjective: what one person enjoys another might not. As David Hume put this position:

Beauty is no quality in things in themselves. It exists merely in the mind that contemplates them, and each mind perceives a different beauty.