Quotes About Subjectivity

And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another. 

Events become feelings, feelings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.

Like everyone else, he is the star of his own life.

In my experience, the more aggressive a woman is, the less guilty she seems. Or maybe it's the guiltier an aggressive woman is, the less rational she becomes. That's a hard thing to judge from the inside.

Ideas are sphincters. Every asshole has one.

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

It's hard to be objective about your own work.

You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you don't determine the value of your work for other people.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.

Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest!

When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them, 'Whatever you got out of it.'

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

I don't think my eyes are stunning as some people's are.

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.