Quotes About Subjectivity

What's he like?" "Thoughtful. Interesting. Compassionate." "These are English words for ugly.

Even if everything between us was 80 percent in my own mind, I said, 20 percent had to come from you. You disagreed; insisted everything that passed between us was my own fabrication.

What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.

He frowns. "Sure is strange looking. Doubt I could sell it if I tried.

L'échec de ses tentatives est dû à ce qu'elles ont toutes accepté la prétention exorbitante de la psychanalyse d'être, non pas un système d'interprétation de la subjectivité, mais la subjectivité même [...] Sous couvert d'introduire le matérialisme dans la subjectivité, on introduisait en fait l'ennemi dans la place, l'idéalisme dans l'histoire.

Car quelles que soient leurs "opinions", les femmes sont opprimées. Leur antiféminisme étant a) un obstacle à la prise de conscience de leurs intérêts objectifs et b) plus directement le reflet de leur oppression dans leur subjectivité est donc l'un des moyens du maintien de cette oppression.

La vacuité d'un phénomène ou d'une chose, ce n'est pas son inexistence ni son absence, mais sa nature instable, mobile, subjective, complexe…

The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment.

Alwyn's beauty came and went depending on how much sleep she'd had, or how much water she'd drunk, or how many people she'd annoyed that day, and this made a person want to keep examining her face because it was never the same.

Alguien que lo mire desde fuera -todo el mundo es mirado desde fuera por los demás- siente siempre una cosa mejor o peor que aquel que conoce el asunto, trátese de felicidad o de desgracia, penas de amor o "decadencia artística".

For the outsider--and everyone in this world is an outsider in relation to everyone else--something always seems worse or better than it does for the one directly concerned, whether that something is good luck or bad luck, an unhappy love affair or an 'artistic decline'.

The historian reports to us, not events themselves, but the impressions they have made on him.

Everything that is said is said by an observer.

He only tells the story once but you see it from about 8 points of view, you have to pay attention the whole time to see whether something seems to be true or is just what somebody says is true.

It was hard to keep a straight face, but Harriet didn't laugh. Everybody around her was living out a different story in which events had different causes and motivations according to how they were perceived.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

El mundo que vemos refleja simplemente nuestro marco de referencia interno:

No aprehendemos de nuestros sentimientos más que su aspecto impersonal, aquel que el lenguaje ha podido clasificar de una vez por todas porque. más o menos, en las mismas condiciones es el mismo para todos los hombres. Así, hasta en nuestro propio individuo la individualidad se nos escapa.

The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the

Precision is not reality.

Base yourself on what you feel, even when you alone feel it.