Beauty depends on taste; in that case, can it exist on its own? Put this way, does beauty cease to exist without taste?
You may enjoy something without necessarily being struck by its sight.
It is said that if something is beautiful, you like it; and if you like it, it is beautiful. Thus, beauty ceases to be an independent property of that which is observed and becomes a condition of the taste of the observer. It ceases to be a detail and becomes a norm. If it is a norm, then it is no longer a matter of taste, for taste is particular. And then, it is no longer beauty.
One could propose beauty as a generality that may or may not coincide with one taste or another. But how is this generality of beauty determined? Through symmetry, through that which stands out, through that which distinguishes itself; despite the countless exceptions to these characteristics, this remains the only way in which we can manifest it.
Taste is something human beings carry alongside reason. Nevertheless, since it is not predetermined, how could the nature of taste be known? It is maintained that it is known through the senses; however, humans are born with it, and its variations persist. Such a notion only leads to the conclusion that it arises from the unpredictable nature of humanity.
Unless one human being could perceive through another's senses, affirming or denying beauty, one might claim that a particular taste is beauty; yet beauty itself may not be pleasing.