Quotes About Subjectivity

I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.

The reaction on the part of the apes, limited as it was to about one subject in every three or four, has just that character of being common, yet individual, that belongs to aesthetic experiences. Some are sensitive to the sight, and the rest are not; to some of them it seems to convey something -- to others it is just a thing, a toadstool or what you will.

We never remember what is important, only what matters to us

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

'If You Could Read My Mind' is a different experience every time I sing it. It's just that kind of a song.

I hate it when people try to explain music. The best thing about music is that it's invisible. If you make a song and someone is like, 'Explain it,' and you explain the message, it's like - poof. It all crashes down.

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

If critics find my songs monotonous, then I also find their opinion monotonous.

Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Most of my beholders are blind.

You may be a person I admire, but you can't be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone's favourite, but you are someone's favourite whether you like them or not.

Beauty lies in the LIES of the beholder!

Most beauty lies in the LIES of the beholder!

We define love the way we experienced it.

A woman is always beutiful to the one who has fallen in love with her, nothing can dampen her image before his eyes.

Knowing beauty is not what can be described but felt, upon looking at something beautiful.

You will love and admire the One who is honest and blunt in his views, as long as you're not his subject of viewpoint!

The very first thing I hear about you is Me !

We all remember people the way we want to remember them.

Wrote you a poem or two. You didn't enjoy them, but I did for you.

The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out.