Quotes About Subjectivity

I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.

I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that. The best you can ever hope to be is fair.

I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.

taste is like a sense of humor. I never met a person who didn't think they had one.

Oh, come on! Nobody's favorite color is BROWN!

The theory of relativity doesn't amount to a hill of beans when there's a bonfire in your shorts.

The truth is what we say it is...prove to me this desk is not a cow!

Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they're all the same.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

Individuality is founded in feeling

A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.

My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.