Quotes About Subjectivity

it had never occurred to him before now that people could see reality in completely different ways.

Art has no right answer. The best we can hope for is an interesting answer.

It's impossible to create work that both matters and pleases everyone.

No one has a transparent view of the world. In fact, we all carry around a personal worldview—the biases and experiences and expectations that color the way we perceive the world.

The critic who doesn't like your work is correct. He doesn't like your work. This cannot be argued with.

Judec?m totul, iar oamenii ne judec? la rândul lor. Adeseori, aceste judec??i sunt subiective, incorecte È™i ineficiente, dar negarea lor nu le face s? dispar?.

Based on who they are and what they want and what they know, everyone is right. Every time.

Picasso hesitates for a moment and asks, "So what do you think reality looks like?" The man grabs his wallet and pulls out a picture of his wife. "Here, like this. It's my wife." Picasso takes the photograph, looks at it, and grins. "Really? She's very small. And flat, too.

We know that every best-selling book on Amazon has at least a few one-star reviews. It's impossible to create work that both matters and pleases everyone.

for each age interprets the past in the light of its own biases.

He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not green. He says everything is a matter of perception.

There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth somewhere in the middle.

People make their own reality, goddess. We hate and we love for reasons that are known only to us.

There are always three sides to every memory….yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two" - Acheron

We hate and we love for reasons that are known only to us.

Our memories are always faulty. They're tainted by our emotions and perceptions. We filter everything we take in by our experiences. I mean, you said yourself a few minutes ago. Did I say what you thought I did or did you hear what you wanted me to say? It doesn't make me a liar or you a fool. It's just human nature. People see what they want to see and they hear what they need or want to hear.

Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.

Life is whatever we conceive it to be.

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.

Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.

Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.