Quotes About Subjectivity

The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.

When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece.

I do like how the music can be misunderstood.

People say I have a scary face. I find that to be a mixed compliment.

Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.

We make decisions based on what we feel in the moment.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

I don't find monkeys inherently funny.

Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.

I know everybody says that their bride was the 'most beautiful in the world.' They're wrong. I win.

Among the many preconceptions that cannot be subjected to any empirical test because they are so subjective is the notion that third-party observers know better what is good for people than those people know themselves.

Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters.

The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste... [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems apropos!]

Beauty is nonconceptual. Nothing in the object directly explains it.

Holmes's experience in the war taught him not that all people have a right to freedom, but rather that claims about right and wrong are really only illusions.67 Ethical principles, he believed, are subjective, emotional commitments that cannot be judged right or wrong. Ideas such as justice or moral good are only the expressions of arbitrary personal preferences and are no more rational than a person's preference for one kind of beer over

It is the devious writer indeed who writes in such a way that the critic who finds himself unresponsive to the writer's vision feels like a philistine.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

The ugly may be beautiful, the pretty never.

They say that February is the shortest month, but you know they could be wrong.

They glared at her as if she were a piece of modern art at a county fair. A hostile sneer here, a puzzled laugh there...

If there is somebody with bluer eyes than mine, then maybe there is somebody with the bluest eyes. The bluest eyes in the whole world.

The most important lesson in photography is learning to photograph what you love.

Ir pagalvojau, kas j? daro tok? graž? - proporcijos, bruožai, oda, kaulai po oda?.. O gal tik aš? Mano akys, mano vizija, mano ?sitikinimas... Mano mintys.