Quotes About Subjectivity

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

Beauty is in the adaptations of the beholder. —DONALD SYMONS, "What Do Men Want?

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.

My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

This god, this one word: I.

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

Good taste is always bad.

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

What's devil to some is good to some others.

There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.

I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it's wrong. If I feel good, it's right.

You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous.

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.