Beautiful; A Compliment

I apologize if I've written about his already, but I couldn't find that I had so here it is.... perhaps again.

I find the term "beautiful" extremely confusing. I feel like it involves a rather significant double standard. A visibly appealing sunset, flower arrangement, or woman are called beautiful simply because of their aesthetic value. Then in the next moment beauty is used as a term for internal? inherent? value disregarding or even in spite of visual appeal.

So basically beauty is a good thing but it might mean super shallow or the complete opposite.

And I'm not exempt. I do this all the time. Usually I use the term beautiful to comment on something aesthetically pleasing and then I find the term "beautiful" popping to mind when confronted with an old, haggard but genuinely good person. So basically, I blame English for being vague... 

The firehydrant picture is the picture my friend sent me for my birthday, and for lack of a better term I called it a beautiful picture... I'm not even sure which definition.... but I might be biased.