Quotes About Subjectivity

I can't remember a 'best gig,' and my brain doesn't work in absolute terms like that.

One man's content is another woman's crap. And the crappy content - let's call it crontent - will never go away.

Anything can be art but very little is good art.

There is no such thing as happy music.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

This - is now my way: where is yours?' Thus I answered those who asked me 'the way'. For the way - does not exist!

This – is now my way: where is yours?' Thus I answered those who asked me 'the way'. For the way – does not exist!

This- is now my way,- where is yours? Thus did I answer those who asked me the way. For the way- it does not exist!

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

All of life is a dispute about tastes.

there are no moral facts at all.

What the new morality resolves itself into is this: You are wrong if you do a thing you do not feel like doing; and you are right if you do a thing you feel like doing. Such a morality is based not only on "fastidiousness," but on "facetiousness." The standard of morality then becomes the individual feeling of what is beautiful, instead of the rational estimate of what is right.

March 7th It is a serious error, if I am not mistaken, to treat time as a mode of apprehension. For one is then forced to consider it also as the order according to which the subject apprehends himself, and he can only do this by breaking away from himself, as it were, and mentally severing the fundamental engagement which makes him what he is.

Voices and faces aren't manifestations of good or bad.

I think that tastes, odors, colors, and so on . . . reside in consciousness. Hence if the living creature were removed, all these qualities would be wiped away and annihilated.

I think when people say Madrid are playing well and Barca are not and vice-versa, or when one wins the Champions League, it's better than the other, I don't think that makes sense. Everyone takes their own path.

The living experience of film only happens when a film is seen, and only within the spectator, because they project their own fears, desires, and fantasies upon those lights and shadows.

There are so many different ways of making people laugh and sometimes you sit down to watch something that everyone says is hilarious and within a couple of minutes you realise its comedy that isn't for you.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It's why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they'll often disagree.

'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

On one level, of course, the notion of judging films or books or music against each other is completely ridiculous. Who's to say '12 Years A Slave' is a better film than 'The Wolf of Wall Street'? Or that one album in a certain genre is better than another in a completely different genre?

There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.