Quotes About Subjectivity

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

No hay dos personas que lean el mismo libro.

No two persons ever read the same book

No two person, ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book".

No two persons ever read the same book. -Edmund Wilson

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

A pretty girl can do no wrong.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Let me ask you something, what is not art?

De gustibus non disputandum [There is no accounting for tastes].

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

I deny everything and affirm naught but myself: because the sole truth of which I have material and moral proof and tangible, comprehensible and intelligible evidence, the only real, startling, non-arbitrary truth not susceptible to interpretation, is myself. I am. There I have a positive fact. Everything else is abstraction and, in mathematics, would be designated as "x", and unknown quantity; and I need not trouble myself with it.

The purpose of this chapter is to make clear why subjectivity and integrated experience are essential enablers of the cultural mind. In the absence of subjectivity, nothing matters; in the absence of some degree of integrated experience, the reflection and discernment that are required for creativity are not possible.

In brief, images were advantageous even if an organism were not conscious of the images formed within it. The organism would not yet be capable of subjectivity and would be unable to inspect the images in its own mind, but still the images could automatically guide the execution of a movement; the movement would be more precise in terms of its target and succeed rather than fail.

We see things and people not as they are, but as we are.

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are. That is why when two people look at something or someone, you get two different reactions. We see things and people not as they are, but as we are.

Terrific or terrifying, depending on your point of view.

Everything depends on the point of view and is rich in varying aspects. A picture is sublime from one corner of the room, a daub from another; a woman's full face may be perfect, her profile a disappointment; above all, what you admire in yourself becomes highly distasteful in your neighbor. The moral is, I suppose, Tolerance; or if not that, something else which has escaped me.

It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions.

And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.

Literature has become too psychological.