Quotes About Subjectivity

it is based on the foundation, as in Descartes, of the "I am," the foundation of subjectivity and consciousness

we seem to be present to ourselves

presence and self-presence (89).

Things in Nature are neutral. It is our approach that determines whether sense objects are experienced as sources of pain or pleasure.

You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see. The language of the camera is the language of our dreams.

I think she's a beautiful woman. She may not be beautiful to look at whatever the fuck that means, in this kingdom of the blind.

She is a beautiful woman. She may not be beautiful to look at, whatever the fuck that means in this kingdom of the blind.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can't answer for her.

I would never undermine a person's interpretation of a creative work.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

I believe that if you have a person who understands your profession, it is a little easier and in the long run, it helps because you understand the subjectivity of time and notion that comes along with a particular profession.

We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's minds. Perhaps we dismiss as irrelevant matters of crucial concern to those we love. That's life as most of us experience it, and which few movies document with such understated acuity as 'Boyhood' does.

It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work.

The thing about audiences is that we can't generalise them. It's very unfair.

Some of my technicals, I don't even understand. I see some of those technicals other players get, and I compare them to mine and they're completely unfair.

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

Sure, he might not have been perfect, but if I thought he was, isn't that all that matters?

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...

What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.