Quotes About Subjectivity

Una obra de arte jamás es bella, por decreto, objetivamente, para todos.

Results-oriented teams establish their own measurements for success. They don't allow themselves the wiggle room of subjectivity. But this is not easy, because subjectivity is attractive.

To paint and nothing more. And to paint seeking a new expression, divested of useless realism, with a method linked only to my thought—without enslaving myself or associating myself with objective reality. Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless. It is my will that takes form outside of all extrinsic schemes, without considering what the public or the critics will say.

Gómez de la Serna illustrates this with a dialogue between a critic and a sage: Critic: It is true that these pictures do not displease my eye; but since I do not understand them, I cannot like them. Sage: What did you have for lunch? Critic: Oysters. Sage: Do you like oysters? Critic: Passionately. Sage: Do you understand oysters?

Braque was right in saying, "The only thing that matters about a painting is what cannot be explained." Assertions that the picture is moving accomplish nothing, and the only hope of conveying some ghost of the feeling lies in description.

Don't ever accuse me of being objective.

This is the trouble with history, though. Even if you were there, which I obviously was, it's sometimes very difficult to pin down.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

Sin was not created by God; it was created by us when we tried to transform what was inevitable into something subjective. We ceased to see that whold and came to see just one part; and that part is loaded with guild, rules, good versus evil, and each side thinking it's right. - Mata Hari

Things are never absolute; they depend on each individual's perceptions.

No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have art.