Full Idea
Supervenience opens up the possibility of a relationship that gives us determination, or dependence, without reduction (as beauty supervenes on physical properties, but can't be given a physical definition).
Gist of Idea
Supervenience suggest dependence without reduction (e.g. beauty)
Source
Jaegwon Kim (Philosophy of Mind [1996], p.223)
Book Reference
Kim,Jaegwon: 'Philosophy of Mind' [Westview 1998], p.223
A Reaction
Beauty is a bad analogy, since it rather obviously involves a beholder. There is nothing more to a statue than a substance of a certain shape. There are no good analogies for this sort of supervenience, because it doesn't exist.