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Quotes About Subjectivity

When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.
~ Henry Rollins
What's good and bad, sweet spirit, are in the eye of the beholder.
~ Jim Goad
As long as you make your own decision and do thing because it feels good to you, there will always be people who agree and people who don't.
~ Kristen Stewart
My good friend once said, "You guys think you're the stars in your own movie."
~ Mackenzie Davis
There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I believe in a democratic approach to fashion: if you feel good, then great. You may not look good, but it's not the problem.
~ Philip Treacy
Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.
~ Richard Dawkins
I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
~ Seth MacFarlane
My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.
~ Shaun Cassidy
I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.
~ Sydney Pollack
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.
~ Tom Robbins
Well, evil to some is always good to others.
~ Jane Austen, Emma
There's no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
~ Stephen Rea
All great art contains an element of the irrational.
~ Edith Sitwell
If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
~ Pablo Picasso
I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
~ Maggie Nelson
I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.
~ Brian Froud
Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else
~ John Green
The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
~ Stendhal