Beauty really matters or Nothing is more useful than useless

Some days seems more inspiring than others. It may go together with moon's position or just a simple fact how I sleep or wake up. Anyhow, last two days I feel very artistic. Again! Good for me! And in my case it means I am searching for all available beauty - beauty in people, surrounding, culture, food, music... all types of beauty. 

Yesterday, I discovered philosophy of Roger Scruton. Why Beauty Matters is a documentary British philosopher prepared for BBC in 2009. He brings a conservative point of view to discussion on what actually is "the beauty". And in many of his ideas I can find mine as well:

• beauty is not subjective but an universal matter humanity needs for its inner-development
• since 20th century, beauty has been replacing by "originality" that Scruton names "cult of ugliness"
• he disagrees with an idea that since the world is disturbing, art should be disturbing as well
• if the work of art would be just an idea, anybody who has an idea could be an artist
• consumer-oriented society values all it has use of, thus values of society are utilitarian. As beauty has no use, it is undervalued. However, he claims: "Nothing is more useful than useless", accompanied by examples of love or old still-standing buildings compared to already crumbled grayish apartment buildings
• it is not nostalgia but knowledge passed from generation to generation what makes beauty of what it is.

I very much agree with those pointed truths. And I also share those conservative societal approaches and by generations proven facts which we should keep in minds and not to run after every single extravagant idea that is purely different, nothing else. I am learning to perceive beauty and I believe everybody can build up such knowledge. Unfortunately, Scruton did not give me an answer where is the line of what is beautiful and what is not (I am decided to look for his book on that topic, if I find it in Istanbul - hate internet shopping). Enhanced by mood of I-need-to-know-more, I watched another, rather superficial document of BBC. It talked more about human's beauty which I wasn't that interested in but still it had two interesting points:

1. movement (of body) is what attracts
2. symmetry (as key of health) is visually more attractive

So what is beauty to me? All that bring warm feeling inside - sometime even hot tea - and even there is an universal beauty, red lines are featured very subjectively: just as I find beautiful Istanbul with all its old ugliness and the same time, I am still afraid once my parents will visit the city, they won't find it attractive at any sense.