Quotes About Subjectivity

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

Art is not about understanding, it's about experience.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.

Our emotions are the way we experience the world. They are never wrong. It is only the conscious mind mismanaging that gets in the way.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

The only real experience that counts, is your own.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people's. (Are we all under this illusion?)

Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.

The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

Art is an emotional experience

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.