Quotes About Subjectivity

Historians pick and choose and every one of them picks and chooses the same thing.

The basic trouble, you see, is that people think that 'right' and 'wrong' are absolute; that everything that isn't perfectly and completely right is totally and equally wrong.

Oddity is in the mind of the receiver.

But what's the difference how they act? How about how I feel? I love Robutt and that's what counts.

If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived.

Tengo cincuenta versiones de cómo empezó nuestro amor y todas son ciertas.

En este relato, escrito muchos años después de los hechos, deseo ser lo más fiel a la verdad posible, pero la memoria es siempre caprichosa, fruto de lo vivido, lo deseado y la fantasía. La línea que divide la realidad de la imaginación es muy tenue, y a mi edad ya no interesa porque todo es subjetivo. La memoria también está teñida por la vanidad.

Me acuerdo de lo que me quiero acordar y no me acuerdo de lo que otra gente quiere que yo me acuerde.

I don't feel a real need to specify the meaning of something. When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music.

If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewriter. If you're an umpire, they give you an unseen object and they call it a strike zone, and nobody seems to agree with you no matter what you call.

The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone to be in.

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

Every story has three sides to it - yours, mine and the facts.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

If you think a lot of the comments made tonight are not funny, but are immature and tasteless, that's only because the sense of humor is the first thing to go.

The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.

Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver, that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle: Strange all this difference should be, 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!

Nothing is more to me than myself.

When every one is in the wrong, every one is in the right.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was 1.

I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself."

What's joy to one is a nightmare to the other.

I know that everyone brings to the work his or her own experiences and background and may interpret the piece like a Rorschach, in their own way.

So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.