Quotes About Subjectivity

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

There is no one truth. There's only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.

There is no truth. Only points of view.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently of our perspectives and interests.

Truth, like love, is never absolute.

There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.

Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two

Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.

The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH." I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape.