Quotes About Opinion

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.

Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.

Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.

He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.–--Manet to Monet, on Renoir---

Colour is a matter of personal opinion.

I don't want to sit there and be like, 'Oh, I don't care what the audience thinks.' It does matter to me. I just want them to think, to be honest.

Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

Bucky B. Katt: I'm not closed minded you're just wrong

Ultimately, I have no power over what he or any boy thinks of me.

I choose not to fight — it doesn't mean I can't ! I'm no heroic vampire, but I'm not the useless coward many think I am. If you fought more often, they wouldn't think that, I noted. True, he admitted. But their opinion doesn't matter. Kurda put his fingers on my chest and pressed softly down on my heart. In here is where a man should judge himself, not on bars or in a ring or on a battlefield. If you know in your heart that you're true and brave, that should be enough.

Remember that being offended is not the same thing as being right.

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

Probably the most violently hated of the weenie songs cited in the survey was "Sometimes When We Touch," sung in a very emotional manner by Dan Hill, who sounds as though he's having his prostate examined by Captain Hook.

Your guess is as good as mine. Better, probably, because you haven't had four beers.

I realize I am generalizing here, but, as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.

Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)

Subjectivity is just objectivity waiting for data