Quotes About Subjectivity

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

I don't approach my movies with a target audience in mind. I try to make something that's true to the subject matter as much as possible, while still being entertaining and fun.

There's no common taste in this world.

Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.

I know that I am not a great beauty, and I know that I am a certain taste.

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.

I have an opinion. I have my own taste.

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.

Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

Everyone has a different impression of what they are eating; not everyone tastes the same things, and definitely, not everyone has the same food memories.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

I do understand that not everyone is going to sit and listen to an Enya album. When someone says it's not their cup of tea, it's not their kind of album, that's fine by me.

If I am totally honest, I would have to say that 'Allo 'Allo!' was not my cup of tea, even though lots of people loved it. For that reason, I find comedy fascinating. There is a huge difference between what people find funny.

The brilliant Albert Mendez refers to a Latin maxim from Medieval times, "De Gustibus Et Coloribus Non Disputandum," which means, there is no arguing about tastes and colors.

Goldwater's approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes.

Look, people are attracted to other people for all sorts of reasons, and there's no right or wrong way to be attracted.

Just because you're offended doesn't mean your right.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

self and society are always interfused; there is no clear place where one ends and the other begins. Subjectivity is always caught up with intersubjectivity, personal experience awash with social and political meanings.