Quotes About Subjectivity

It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

Sometimes I go to sleep thinking, "I don't like this painting." But then I wake up in the morning, look at it again and think, "Actually, that's not so bad."

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

There is nothing so special or boring nor there are any weak or strong things in this world. It is we and our surficial perception that creates these types of environment

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

There is no such thing as happy music.

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.

To a large degree I don't even like most metal music I hear.