Quotes About Subjectivity

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

Certain songs mean a lot to you, and they don't really resonate with anybody else, and the ones you don't necessarily love are the ones that become really meaningful to a lot of other people.

If you make a good show, you tend to get good reviews. I don't believe it is as arbitrary as some people tend to think, which artists do to protect themselves against bad reviews.

Elections are always a Rorschach test - people look at the results and see what they want to see.

When it's a judge's decision, you never know. You can win five rounds and still lose a judge's decision.

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

If there are 100 people, I don't anticipate all 100 liking my scenario - but I write it so at least one or two of them will love and get really into that particular story.

Whenever I write the scenarios for my games, I don't necessarily envision them being liked or being wonderful for everyone.

Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.

Everybody is always in the middle of their own opera.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

Nostalgia can be an awful bore, especially for those whose memories are painted in hues different from ours.

A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.

When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

I always said your best palate is your own, not mine. I'm a guidepost.

People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you.

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.