Quotes About Subjectivity

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness.

Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

To my mind, there are no unattractive women; only those who haven't been awakened by love . . . A woman is often like a strip of film-obliterated, insignificant-until a man puts the light behind her.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man.

I wish I could be attracted to unattractive women. They're just more interesting.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not the mirror.

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

One thing I don't do anymore as I've gotten older is that I don't make big blanket statements about whether or not an artist is good or bad.

There are no statements in my paintings at all. Quite the opposite - I don't like people to go looking for them. If something makes me laugh, that's it.

The mind and how the player feels is much more important for us, rather than statistical data.

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

While its proponents might get the facts wrong, they get the subjective experience right.

People are less aware, however, of another source of divergent beliefs—the fact that the same issue or situation is construed quite differently by different people, even people with the same tastes, values, and orientations. As social psychologist Solomon Asch noted many years ago, differences of opinion between people are not always linked to differences in their "judgment of the object," but often reflect differences in the very "object of judgment" itself.

The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

Tanizaki's subject requires the shadowy style in which he treats it

Whether you think consciousness to be a benefit or a horror, this is only what you think—and nothing else.