Subjective Quotes

• Art is so subjective--it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the senses and emotions.

  Michelle Malone

  Art, Mean, Important

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• Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

  Edward de Bono

  Gratitude, Ungrateful, Negative

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• If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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• All experience is subjective.

  Gregory Bateson

  Subjectivity

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.47, University of Chicago Press

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• It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Law, Mind, Desire

  "It's Do-able!: Power to Unleash Your Dream". Book by Canaan Mashonganyika, p. 125, 2013.

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• Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

  Jane Goodall

  Spiritual, Demand, Proof

  Jane Goodall, Phillip Berman (1999). “Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey”, p.107, Hachette UK

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• A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

  Martine Franck

  Lying, Fleeting, Photograph

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• Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Song, Mean

  Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”

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• Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Feelings, Mind, World

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• You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

  Byron Katie

  Projects

  Twitter post from Aug 14, 2013

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• Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

  Allen Frances

  Tests, Diagnosis, Judgment

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• A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

  Alain Badiou

  Order, Humanity, Development

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• Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

  Robin Leach

  Travel, Bangkok, Persons

  "Rish & Famous". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the first...A crowd scarcely distinguishes between the subjective and the objective. It accepts as real the images invoked in its mind, though they most often have only a very distant relation with the observed facts....Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Real, Thinking, Mind

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• Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

  Truman Capote

  Views, Novelists, Toes

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• The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  William Carlos Williams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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• "Is," "is," "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Objectivity, Might, Subjectivity

  "Fictional character: Sigismundo Celine". The Historical Illuminatus book series, 1982-1991.

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• Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.

  Rufus Sewell

  Mean, Quality, Genre

  Source: www.thehollywoodnews.com

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• Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evil, Shadow, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.487, Library of America

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• Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet.

  Richard Dawkins

  Judgment, Seems, Irrelevant

  "The Blind Watchmaker". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1986.

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• The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.

  Cornell Capa

  Important, Cameras, Stories

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

  Spike Milligan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Spike Milligan (1993). “Hidden Words: Collected Poems”

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• An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

  Maxim Gorky

  Artist, Men, Form

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• We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

  Carl Jung

  Wise, Truth, Philosophy

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