Quotes About Subjectivity

I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me . . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy", says Blake, who possessed in an eminent degree this form of sacramental perception, "is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the Way.

One man's shit is anothers factory of Bliss.

No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.

Il bello sarebbe meno ingannevole e insidioso se cominciasse a venir considerato bello tutto ciò che dà un'emozione, indipendentemente dai canoni stabiliti.

I don't like the idea of "understanding" a film. I don't believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn't. If you are moved by it, you don't need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

Comprenderás que un poeta no puede decir nada de la Poesía. Eso déjaselo a los críticos y profesores. Pero ni tú ni yo ni ningún poeta sabemos lo que es la Poesía.

Tanto la «intención» del autor como la impresión que el lector recibe son ambas igualmente «subjetivas» en el sentido de que no son vinculantes; más allá de ambas está lo que en la propia secuencia argumentativa del texto hay de vinculante.

Descubrí que su belleza era agresiva, aunque su agresividad no fuera contra nada , igual me parecía que era agresiva, que esa era la cualidad de su belleza.

No observer is the observer of what is purely and simply given by reality; all observations and all interpretations are the observations and interpretations of persons grounded in and limited by the historical time in which they observe and interpret. These

No observer is the observer of what is purely and simply given by reality; all observations and all interpretations are the observations and interpretations of persons grounded in and limited by the historical time in which they observe and interpret.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

I preach that there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.

La experiencia nunca puede ser compartida. Se sirve en envases individuales.

There are truths on this side of the Pyrénées, which are falsehoods on the other.

It's not easy to define poetry.

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

But the truth is, we all take facts and compute them through our own experiences.

I'm not saying there's no such thing as right or wrong. But I'm saying what may work for some doesn't work for others.

Infinite Jest' is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it.