Quotes About Subjectivity

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place.

In regard to criticism, we are in the world of football and subject to continuous criticism.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.

Capitalism does not require us to hold a particular set of cognitive beliefs; it only requires that we act as if certain beliefs (about money, commodities etc) are true. The rituals are the beliefs, beliefs which, at the level of subjective self-description, may well be disavowed.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

One's memories aren't what actually happened - they're very subjective. You can always make it much better, right?

A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.

I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that's important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

I think that first-person narration is very characteristic of contemporary optics, in which the individual performs the role of subjective center of the world.

The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

I can't speak for every American comic, but for me, a great show is its own reward. Comedy is too subjective for awards.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

What makes a lot of suspenseful films work is very, very particular points of view and very subjective use of the camera.

I work from a subjective palette.