Quotes About Subjectivity

If you smell baby diapers in a wine that smells like strawberries to me, that's OK. The winery isn't putting either in the wine.

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

What you remember, it's real. It doesn't matter how accurate your memory of something is, it is real to you. What you perceive as reality is reality.

we each construct our own reality by interpreting the external world on the basis of our unique experiences with it and our beliefs about those experiences.

Intentionality highlights the mystery of what brains are, ultimately, supposed to do; namely, to make other items, indeed worlds, appear to someone.

There are two sides to every story but only one truth.

I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy.

I cant make art to please everybody all the time. I make art that I like.

I have some songs on 'Tha Carter V,' but if I hear a song five times, I don't like it no more.

Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.

Some people don't have a sense of humor about certain things, and other people do.

I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

Looking at 'Batman v Superman' - which I can watch objectively, since I'm in it for all of two seconds - I see different layers. It is not preachy, and represents the gray we live in as human beings.

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

Time passed again. I don't know how long. I had no watch. They don't make that kind of time in watches anyway.

The next hour was three hours long

You would never look at yourself as "evil" no matter what the other fellow thought of what you did. It's in our nature. And that's the great secret of evil. It is never viewed as evil by those who perpetrate the evil.

After my book Wanderlust came out in 2000, I found myself better able to resist being bullied out of my own perceptions and interpretations. On two occasions around that time, I objected to the behavior of a man, only to be told that the incidents hadn't happened at all as I said, that I was subjective, delusional, overwrought, dishonest- in a nutshell, female.

On two occasions around that time, I objected to the behavior of a man, only to be told that the incidents hadn't happened at all as I said, that I was subjective, delusional, overwrought, dishonest—in a nutshell, female.

I objected to the behavior of a man, only to be told that the incidents hadn't happened at all as I said, that I was subjective, delusional, overwrought, dishonest—in a nutshell, female.

But there isn't actually a most beautiful person in the world, because there are so many kinds of beauty.