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Quotes About Perception

One's memories aren't what actually happened - they're very subjective. You can always make it much better, right?
~ Wong Kar-wai
Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
~ Karl Pilkington
Comedy isn't subjective like music. You either get the laughs or you don't.
~ Rob Beckett
I know music is subjective.
~ Joan Jett
Beauty is subjective and should not be limited to only what we see on the outside.
~ Alek Wek
All experience is subjective.
~ Gregory Bateson
Beauty is subjective, so people's opinions don't really matter.
~ Zozibini Tunzi
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.
~ Crispin Glover
There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.
~ Charlie Kaufman
Just like hair frames our face, brows frame our eyes. I see so much potential in harmonized beauty whenever I see a woman who's not filling in her brows, and I just want to go in with my brow pencil and just be like, 'Filling in eyebrows, OK, done - look in the mirror and be inspired.' That's one of my pet peeves, but beauty is subjective.
~ Michelle Phan
It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.
~ Aimee Mullins
As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate.
~ John Dykstra
Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
~ Georges Rouault
Art is subjective and, as an artiste, if our artistic work is not appreciated by the majority, it hurts.
~ Badshah
The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
~ Natalia Kills
The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.
~ Martin Seligman
Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.
~ Johnny Vegas
Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.
~ Virginia Postrel
I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to do with my subjective understanding of what it means to be either of those things.
~ Claire Messud
Where a country lies is a subjective decision and only in part a product of its own desire. Much, if not most, is determined by what others believe about it.
~ Toomas Hendrik Ilves
I try to make all the action in my movies subjective: to give a sense of what it would feel like to actually be a part of it.
~ Shane Black
What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.
~ The Edge
It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.
~ Bertie Carvel
Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.
~ Eric Kandel