Quotes About Subjectivity

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. Hamlet could be told from Polonius's point of view and called The Tragedy of Polonius, Lord Chamberlain of Denmark. He didn't think he was a minor character in anything, I daresay.

Sport, truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder. You believe what you choose and I'll believe what I know

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this — as in other ways — they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

A drawing of a tree shows not a tree but a tree being looked at

Every image embodies a way of seeing. Even a photograph. For photographs are not, as is often assumed, a mechanical record. Every time we look at a photograph, we are aware, however slightly, of the photographer selecting that sight from an infinity of other possible sights. This is true even in the most casual family snapshot. The photographer's way of seeing is reflected in his choice of subject.

Yet, although every image embodies a way of seeing, our perception or appreciation of an image depends also upon our own way of seeing.

The Photographer's way of seeing is reflected in his choice of subject. The painter's way of seeing is reconstituted by the marks he makes on canvas or paper. Yet, although every image embodies a way of seeing, our perception or appreciation of an image depends also upon our own way of seeing.

Nouns, verbs do not exist for what I feel.

William James speculated that subjective time was measured in novel experiences, which become rarer as you get older.

we may just have to come around to the notion that there's my universe and there's your universe—but there's no such thing as the universe.

The science of morality requires us to, in the end, get beyond the myth of a perfectly objective scientific morality.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a different way on each reader.

There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may,—light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

Truth is not the same for everyone whereas facts are.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

In the post-modern academic world, truth is often alleged to be relative.

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.