Quotes About Subjectivity

Art is all a matter of personality.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Everyone's going to have their own experience and perspective on everything.

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.

There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with an open mind but without surrendering too many pawns. We don't want to misrepresent the fact that we will draw our own conclusions.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph.

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.

What amazes me is that you can have 10 different photographers in the same room, and you see 10 different rooms. You realize how much of it is the person's perspective rather than the situation itself.

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.

Photography is not a fine art at all.

Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.