Quotes About Subjectivity

On the wall hung a picture of an ugly old Cape Cod house. His friends said, 'Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?' and Bull said, 'I like it because it's ugly.

The prettiest girls live in Des Moines

'Twin Peaks' is one of those Rorschach ink blot things, where everybody finds their own favorite thing.

If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally different opinions and responses. No person - no two people - read the same book.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

No two people see things the same way.

There is nothing more amusing than when two people known for being non-objective argue over objectivity. This is the summation of Keith Olbermann vs. Ted Koppell.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Only ugliness is obscene.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.

I have never met an ugly woman.

I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

All babies are ugly unless they're your baby.

Let's say another YouTuber rates my outfit from Coachella, right? They are completely entitled to their opinion, and I actually really loved my Coachella outfit. If they say, 'This is ugly,' and even if I don't think it's true, it's a mood killer.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.