Quotes About Subjectivity

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

John Henry Newman, poet and priest, wrote that "time is not a common property; / But what is long is short, and swift is slow/And near is distant, as received and grasped / By this mind and by that, / And every one is standard of his own chronology.

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms." (p. 12)

The deepest subjectivity is not personal.

Listen, unless you are me or in my position. don't ever try to tell me how to feel.

You must find our own way. What is right for one person may not be for another. There is no single right way to live your life or approach death.

Every person has a right to their own opinion, but your opinion is not my reality.

Sometimes the most beautiful things can't be seen through someone else's eye's.

He was not saying that external reality does not exist; rather, that we can only know it subjectively.

Sin is obviously relative to the man, and not a universal attribute.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It's cowardly, I know, but I figure it's not my job to make people unhappy. I'll leave that to the professionals.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

There is no unique picture of reality.

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

My Ready-Mades have nothing to do with the 'objet trouve' because the so-called 'found object' is completely directed by personal taste. Personal taste decides that this is a beautiful object and is unique.

Freedom is a unique concept that everyone interprets differently.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.

We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.

After talking to people and meeting them every day, I realize that a song can be written from one perspective with an objective in mind. What is crazy about it is that many different people can take one song a totally different way. That is so cool, since music is a universal thing and a very personal thing.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.