Quotes About Subjectivity

Two people say 'I love you' or mutually think it and feel it, and each has in mind a different idea, a different life, perhaps even a different colour or fragrance, in the abstract sum of impressions that constitute the soul's activity.

Si todo hombre fuera juez, todos los hombres estarían locos

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there's no truth

I remember my roommate was watching 'Seven Samurai,' and I just couldn't fathom why anybody would watch it.

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.

Favorite movie lists are impossible for me to do.

Favorite movie of all time? I hate being asked... that's like being asked, 'What's your favorite song?'

I don't believe in 'greatest'. I believe in favorites.

Any film, whether it worked at the box office or not, I'll have my favourite moments from it.

People are entitled to their own opinion to make them feel good, to make them sleep at night.

What you're getting excited about is not A face, but a feminine face.

Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.

Music is completely not reality. There's nothing about music that has any meaning at all. A lot of people disagree with that, but it's basically true. You can listen to a piece of music, and fifteen people will give you fifteen answers of what it's about.

Different refs judge fights differently.

I love my painting - it fills me with passion. But it's not something I expect anyone else to love.

I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.

If I think something is heinous, but the person feels amazing in it, who am I to critique it? If they think that those bell-bottom, cropped, shredded jeans look good, then good for them!

Who am I, really? I prefer to leave that up to the observer, because I will never finish answering that.

If I love a comic but they have an off night, who am I to say they should have taken out this or added that? It doesn't work that way... I have no interest in hurting people's feelings.

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

Whoever you talk to, I'm either overrated or underrated. It's all who you to talk to.

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

I can't say what people use the experience of listening to songs for, but I would never tell somebody what it is supposed to mean. That defeats the purpose of making it. Hopefully, whoever connects with it connects with it in their own way, and it can mean whatever it is supposed to mean to them.