Subjectivity Quotes

“Objectivity has been constructed in opposition to subjectivity, a dichotomy that feminists have rightly questioned.”

“If one says 'Red' and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.”

“Why is it that when our brains process information, we have an inner life?”

“To be a subject is not to be a substance but to be a process, a process of fidelity to an event.”

“No matter how skillful the painter, his work was always in fee to an inescapable subjectivity.”

“There are no real standards in the theater. What is good for some is bad for others.”

“Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.”

“Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.”

“Taste is the enemy of art.”

“I don't think you can get a consensus on what's funny. It's not possible.”

“A bad movie is a personal experience.”

“We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.”

“Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is.”

“I don't know who the great photographers are. I know my favorites.”

“What is called 'objectivity,' scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation), is grounded in a primordial subjectivity.”

“Memory is a poet, not a historian.”

“My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint.”

“I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view.”

“Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's going to dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.”

“There's a contradiction in what I do. I feel this pull toward the shameful, the sordid, the pathetic, the embarrassing.”