Quotes About Subjectivity

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No'.

The important thing is that each one feel for himself the specific expressive quality of a theme or, similarly, an entire piece of music. And if it is a great work of art, don't expect it to mean exactly the same thing to you each time you return to it.

Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between sweeter than any wine and as bitter as mustard greens.

What is the point of literature? I think that the person who asks that question will not find my answer convincing anyway

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

A woman with unconventional beauty raises the hope that the viewer might be the only one to see it, that in recognizing and appreciating it, he alone has created her beauty.

Sometimes I think the memory of an event is better than the event itself.

No amount of "evidence" or research will convince the unamused that a joke is funny.

Maybe, it was incredulity that two people could go through something together but still see it so differently.

excuse for our negligent attitude. But it is not so. What we call chauvinistic education - in the case of the French people, for example - is only the excessive exaltation of the greatness of France in all spheres of culture or, as the French say, civilization. The French boy is not educated on purely objective principles. Wherever the importance of the political and cultural greatness of his country is concerned he is taught in the most subjective way that one can imagine.

I know that no one's story is simple. And no single story tells the whole truth.

Feminism means finally that we renounce our obedience to the fathers and recognise that the world they have described is not the whole world. Masculine ideologies are the creation of masculine subjectivity; they are neither objective, nor value-free, nor inclusively "human." Feminism implies that we recognise for us, the distortion, of male-created ideologies, and that we proceed to think, and act, out of that recognition.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Peas are terrible and a joke food.

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

Some people say I'm attractive. I say I agree.

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.

I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character.