Quotes About Subjectivity

In the arts there are many right answers.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.

The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

Art is what you get away with

The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.

If you don't understand it, it's art.

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Colour is a matter of personal opinion.

If you call that music real noise

Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.

It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'