Quotes About Perception

I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and measured.' I have difficulty thinking that's the way we experience things.

I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it to be because it's subjective.

Comedy is subjective, and any joke can be funny.

Comedy is subjective.

What music can do so well is tell the truth in a subjective way.

Hearing is a subjective experience, but I never really understood that it's the same with seeing as well. I always thought that everything we see is the same for everyone. But having these more psychedelic experiences of being really, really sad made me realize how brittle reality can be.

Comedy is subjective, so if you don't like it, that's fine.

Football officiating is so subjective - much more subjective than any other sport. But the more I watch - and I watch too many matches - the more impressed I am with referees.

Humor is a very personal, subjective thing.

Whether something is sensible or not is subjective. What is sensible to me might not be for others.

In comedy, it's so subjective; there is no right or wrong.

Acting is very subjective and one can't be deterred by what people think of your work.

Art is very subjective and having to put numbers on it seems counterintuitive.

I can't really iterate what I look for in a script. It's a very subjective thing. Like an organic attachment you have with the script and characters.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.