Quotes About Interpretation

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.

At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I began to really interrogate the act of looking.

What provides you with subject matter is your own language - and that's all.

I know music is subjective.

All experience is subjective.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

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.

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.

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

Art is subjective and, as an artiste, if our artistic work is not appreciated by the majority, it hurts.

I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective.

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.

Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.

Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I mean? I think there can be an art in the way people live their lives, and art can be a gift someone gives to somebody.

I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black and white or right and wrong.

Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.

I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

Movies are very subjective.

What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.

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.

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