Quotes About Subjectivity

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.

There is nothing good or bad, only thinking makes it so.

Perceptions may not be true, but its true for YOU!

I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision.

Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.

The world we experience as 'out there' is actually a reconstruction of reality that is built inside our heads. It's an act of creation by the storytelling brain.

In art one idea is as good as another.

Maleness is [...] a limited and subjective position rather than the standard from which ribs are removed

People fail to realize the technical conditions of drama, and think that, in the case of so simple a matter as playwriting, everyone is as good a judge as his neighbor. With regard to music and painting, you will hear people modestly confess that they have no expert knowledge, though "they know what they like." With regard to drama, they are troubled with no such diffidence. They not only know what they like, but they know what you ought to like, and more especially what you ought to despise.

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that's counted truly counts.

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

A flashlight held against the skin might just as well be off. Art, like light, needs distance, and anyone who attempts to render sexual experience directly must face the fact that the writhings which comprise it are ludicrous without their subjective content, that the intensity of that content quickly outruns its apparent cause, that the full experience becomes finally inarticulate, and that there is no major art that works close in. Not an enterprise for amateurs. Even the best are betrayed.

Physicist Pascual Jordan added, "We ourselves produce the results of measurement." And, by extension, he meant reality itself.

Red is not in the apple but in the perception.

People don't see the world as it is, rather we impose our beliefs on what we experience.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.