Quotes About Subjectivity

Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.

all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

gave it the illusion of being there … the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

The necessity for an observer makes perfect observation impossible.

The person feels bad and acts upon that feeling as if it were really a fact.

People can be in the same place sharing the same experience at the same time, but they can walk away from it having seen very different things.

Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on Friends is.

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

The good is not a category that interests me.

Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.

Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

Pizza tastes better than broccoli and opinion tastes better than news.

I make a film - and once I've made it, everyone comes along and says 'Ah! This is a film that's political, or social', or whatever. But I'm not telling the story that they see. I made a film, told a story, but I wasn't thinking about exactly what it all meant.

Everyone's life experience is different.

My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.

Marjorie Luke was funny and huge, or at least I remember her that way.

I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind.