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Quotes About Subjectivity

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.
~ Morrissey
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
~ Imogen Heap
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
~ Agnes Martin
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
~ Hannah Arendt
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.
~ Auguste Rodin
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
~ Blaise Pascal
The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.
~ Simon Blackburn
What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.
~ Arthur Guiterman
The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.
~ Wil McCarthy
Nature is usually wrong.
~ James McNeill Whistler
The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.
~ John Malkovich
Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.
~ Stephen Chbosky
All in the eye of the beholder - Some of the most destructive forces in the world (Fire & Water), can also have the power of beauty.
~ Martin R. Lemieux
Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
We see the world not as it is, but as we are.~Dag Redwing Hickory Bluefield
~ Lois McMaster Bujold, Passage
One man's pet-stained carpet is another man's Twister game.
~ Emo Philips
Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.
~ Jean Cocteau
Everything is beautiful in its own way.
~ Ray Stevens
I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.
~ Lin Yutang
To be is to be perceived
~ George Berkeley