Quotes About Subjectivity

Cose che per qualcuno sono di nessuna importanza, per altri possono essere terribili come la morte.

I'd just as lief hear a thing as see it any day. I saw some music once and it wasn't half as pretty to look at as it was when I heard it.

A visitor reading all the reviews the day after a New York opening would arrive at the conclusion that these men had not all seen the same play, so conflicting are their judgments.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.

TRUTH, such as it appears to us, can only be relative, because we ourselves, being relative creatures, have only a relative perception and judgment. We appreciate that which is true to ourselves, not that which is universally true. And truth may well assume an aspect to one different from that it assumes to another.

What then is Error? It is nothing per se. It is the opposition of one relative truth against another to the exclusion of the latter.

Instead of making cathedrals out of Christ, man, or "life," we are making it out of ourselves, out of our own feelings.

How do i know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing? Answer: We don't. We take it on faith.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

I have never liked the memoir form because I tend to think that memory fictionalizes anyway. Once you claim that you are writing a narrative purely from memory, you are already in the realm of fiction.

The way a play is seen is completely dependent on the circumstances and the world in which it is received.

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

Being extremely honest is quite funny. But there's no recipe or concept that I can bring up that fully defines what we find humorous. It's instinctive.

A few people have said my granddad looks like me, but I reckon he's far better looking.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

I would like beautiful gymnastics to be recognized as the best. I want the judges to appreciate things that are not necessarily winning points.

Taste is idiosyncratic, so I don't love everything people recommend me, and I don't love everything my friends love.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

It's almost like, it's often the bad recording quality of things which makes them interesting.