Quotes About Subjectivity

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!

I know some of my memories are made up and they are far more powerful than the things that actually happened. For example, I always remember my brother posting me a copy of 'Dubliners' from Africa, but he says he never did.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

Literature, of course, is not a contest.

The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2.

What I consider country music doesn't make it the end all be all, but if you ask me my opinion, that's what you're going to get.

When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.

I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' That's what lists like this are for.

I'm not a critic, I'm not there to tell people what they should think about something - I just want to kind of enthuse about stuff to let people make their own mind up about it.

At the end of the day, every person makes their own evaluation and their own criticism and it's all respectable. I don't want to say who is right and who isn't.

When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

If I can be cruel; I'm not a big fan of the Audi R8, actually.

Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about.

Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.'

If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it - but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.

I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

One person's disaster is another person's talking point.

Brandom's critics, and more generally those critics of pragmatism who hold fast to their strong "realistic intuitions," want something much more substantial and nonperspectival. They want acknowledgment of a hard-core reality that is not "contaminated" by human subjectivity or perspective.