Quotes About Subjectivity

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

Art is sanctioned pornography

This may become a history book, but remember, it is only my history.

How could the same nose, mouth and eyes appear handsome in one man, merely plain in another?

There are two sides to every story, Pharry, and each of those sides can argue that they are right.

If I could not be with Beth, perhaps I could find some comfort in being close to her, however subjectively.

W. H. Auden used to say, rather pungently, that he could only truly "see" a poem once it's typed because "a man likes his own handwriting the way he likes the smell of his own farts.

When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

The decision as to what's funny and what is not funny shall rest solely with Mr. Freberg.

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest.

Some people will always think I've got the eyes of Satan. Others will think I'm a TV god. People have the right to criticise.

I remember the first time I heard a co-worker refer to himself as a foodie. It immediately irritated me. Was he implying that he appreciated food more than other people? That his love of eating was somehow more evolved than mine? Don't all people love the thing we can't live without?

I've seen people around me write books, and somehow they're always in the center of everything that happened; they were the one who made it happen. There's been a lot of those books that didn't really interest me much.

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

Beauty does not mean one thing but not something else.

I guess we all have our own realities

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.

There's such a thing, if you're a finance man, as hitting the figures you need to hit. But there's no equivalent in acting. It's a creative field. It's subjective. That's what I love about it.

A person does not have to be beautiful for you to find them beautiful. That's what love is all about.

One man's thorn is another man's rose.