Quotes About Subjectivity

Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.

It's not enough to quote someone; it's important to specify what aspect of that person you're referencing. Every time we talk about someone, we speak of that person as if our perception is the same for everyone. When

If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.

One person's garbage is another person's commodity.

It is not about recentering the subject (via the effect of recognition), but about decentering her radically, producing a subjective split in its purest form. The temporal dimension comes into play at this very juncture.

A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

as lover's complaint was noted, perhaps, by the one who knew to find it, and for the rest of the room, only artistic caprice—the

Diaries are terrible liars. They record dramas out of context, encourage paranoia, rearrange facts, are deliberately biased and self-justifying, blind you with irrelevance, censor alternative opinion, exaggerate petty complaints into tragic emblems and, in particular, wallow in the fact that any fool can write about dejection, but describing happiness takes determination and skill. Most diaries are moans in writing, even when the person writing them is happy.

'Tis with our judgments as our watches, noneGo just alike, yet each believes his own.

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

Some valuing those of their own side or mind, Still make themselves the measure of mankind; Fondly we think we honour merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Some valuing those of their own side or mind, Still make themselves the measure of mankind: Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

Cuteness can not be measured and is therefore only based on opinion. If someone calls you cute, then that means they find a cute characteristic in you that you may not necessarily see in yourself. (Unless they say it as an insult).

We all have our spectacles, but no one can tell to a shade the colour of the glass.

I don't like sports where it's like, you watch a guy on a motorcycle flip or something, then another guy does it, it looks exactly the same, and then at the end one guy gets higher points! It seems so arbitrary; I don't know who's ahead ever.

I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

I feel kind of offended when I watch films, and everything is explained to me - you know, laying out how I should feel from one scene to the next.

Many people who have watched 'Pieta' have said my filmmaking has become more objective.

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

I think, in some ways, I like it when people tell me what they're thinking. I would rather have it that way than masquerade as if you're totally unbiased and objective.

I think that different people are objectively attractive in different ways and a big part of the romance genre for me is in discovering what that true attractiveness is.