Quotes About Subjectivity

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

An artist shouldn't be judged by how many people like his art but by how pure and good it is - but I think that when you're telling jokes, which is more what I'm doing, if people aren't laughing, you're telling bad jokes.

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

A masterpiece doesn't push you around. It lets you make up your own mind about what it means - and change it as often as you like.

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.

Even the biggest flops have been liked by a few select people.

Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.

Friendly Fires were dull, and I wouldn't really sit down and listen to Hot Chip.

Ford Madox Ford

You and I are like two people . . . He paused and began again more quickly: Do you know these soap advertisement signs that read differently from several angles? As you come up to them you read 'Monkey's Soap'; if you look back when you've passed it's 'Needs no Rinsing.' . . . You and I are standing at different angles and though we both look at the same thing we read different messages. Perhaps if we stood side by side we should see yet third. . . . But I hope we respect each other.

Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner…?

You cannot see me from where I look at myself.

Time can also be a place, Moneo," Leto said. "Everything depends upon where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

La memoria non ricattura mai la realtà. La memoria ricostruisce. Tutte le ricostruzioni cambiano l'originale, diventando quadri di riferimento esterni che inevitabilmente si discostano dal vero.

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

Memoria nu recreeaz? niciodat? realitatea. Memoria doar reconstituie. ?i orice reconstituire modific? originalul, devenind ea îns??i un cadru de referin?? extern, în mod inevitabil deficitar.

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like.

Biri sana cehennemi s?cak ve korkunçtur diye anlatt???nda cehennem hakk?nda ne bilebilirsen, benim hakk?mda da ancak o kadar?n? bilebilirsin...

Los testimonios no concuerdan sino el tema de su ropa: lleva siempre el mismo traje, un chaqué negro con largos faldones. Como es natural, esas diferencias no son efecto de una operación mágica, sino que dependen del humor con el que se mira a Klamm y de que los demás no tienen sino un breve instante para mirarle; las diferencias dependen del grado emocional del espectador y de los innumerables matices de su esperanza o de su desesperación.

If you ask two people to remember a specific event, the stories are going to vary wildly because we always make ourselves out to be the hero.

It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.

The thing I love about golf is that it's all on me. I can't blame another player, the wind, or even blame a bad round on one chunked shot. It's not subjective at all. Meanwhile, acting is very subjective. I can be the best actor and not get the job.