Quotes About Subjectivity

I am opposed to autobiographies, mainly because most autobiographies lie.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.

I've heard people say all our music sounds the same, but it's usually just the people who don't like us who say it.

I can't be objective about my work, because I am so involved that I can't see it as a product to be judged. I can't see it as an outsider.

I hate the concept of beauty for the sake of it. It is overrated.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

You don't understand the things I do, but I do have my reasons. They're not your reasons, so they're not real to you, but they're real to me, and that's enough.

Beauty may reside in the eye of the beholder, but what we see is determined by what we expect to see.

There is no such thing as nonfiction.

Reality is based on interpretation.

Ugly people look prettier in the dark.

People will passionately defend the qualities of leaders they deem charismatic, just as they would blindly defend a person they are in love with: with no concern for facts or objective evidence in support of their views.

The girls really do get prettier at closing time.

She had been forced to accept the idea that what was true, and what couldn't possibly be, were ideas that depended on which life you lived - on which lives you lived.

As Zen practitioners might say. two people looking at the same mountain are not seeing the same mountain, and so poetic "worldliness" can take an infinite number of versions: the sensibility of an individual artist is as distinct as a fingerprint.

Of course it's almost ludicrously difficult to talk about art. And about beauty. Beauty is a perversion--how can you retain your self-respect when you talk about it?

None of us are this light and dark fantasy. What's dark to you may be light to me and vice versa.

Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.

og forresten er vel alle og enhver ulykkelig på sin egen måte, og det skulle jeg tro de har rett til!

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

You are shifting from … … the past occurring as a series of events that "really happened" and are "the" truth … … to … … the past occurring as a series of interpretations you've made about events that happened, all of which are valid and none of which represent "the" truth.