Quotes About Subjectivity

Describing men, of course, I run into the same problems—aquiline nose, chiseled features, bullish neck, leonine hair, steely gaze, bronze tan—but somehow the arsenal of clichés and materials for describing men seems smaller. Many feminists are right to claim that the male is on the whole less objectified than the female; the male is treated more frequently as the subject rather than the object.

La felicidad es un concepto incoercible.Huye a toda concreción. Cada cual la perfila conforma a su perspicacia o la define de acuerdo a sus aspiraciones. Pero nadie acierta." Caterva, p.29

La literatura es una cuestión de gustos, es decir, de limitaciones".

La literatura es una cuestión de gustos, es decir, de limitaciones.

Where causation is concerned, a grain of wise subjectivity tells us more about the real world than any amount of objectivity.

I've learned that, just like beauty, what constitutes witchcraft is dependent upon the eye of its beholder.

He wasn't the best looking man she'd ever met. It was just

Wenn ich in Unterleuten eins gelernt habe, dann dass jeder Mensch ein eigenes Universum bewohnt, in dem er von morgens bis abends recht hat.

Als ik iets heb geleerd in Unterleuten, dan is het wel dat ieder mens in een eigen universum leeft, waarin hij van 's ochtends vroeg tot 's avonds laat gelijk heeft.

What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?

A veces el mal está en los ojos del que mira y no en lo que ve.

There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.

No one's memory is infallible, of course - quite the opposite.

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

I don't believe in the word 'influencer', I don't believe I'll inspire people, because what might be right for me might not be from another perspective.

We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree.

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad.

I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

Burzum is not a political or religious band, or even an anti-religious band. Burzum is music - art if you like - and the interpretation of art lies in the eye of the beholder.

There's no right or wrong answer in an interpretation. It's all in the person who's interpreting, and how you feel about something.