Top 131 Subjective Quotes

It is not unusual for the eye or ear to play tricks with one, but when such illusions and delusions are taken for the Spirit forms of the departed and voices of the dead instead of being recognized as some subjective phenomena brought about by a physical cause, the situation takes on a grave aspect.

Realism is always subjective in film. There’s no such thing as cinema verite.

I don’t agree with the sentiment ‘write what you know.’… I think one should write what one doesn’t know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination.

A writer can be subjective, even digressive, or introspective and certainly judgmental. This is a simplification, of course, but as a general rule, it holds true.

Being a YouTuber, I agree that YouTube’s content is much more superior than TikTok. If people say TikTok has cringe content, YouTube also does. But content is subjective.

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.

I’ve learned not to attach personal feelings to critics who review your work. It’s their opinions, their perceptions – it’s a very subjective thing, and you can be hurt.

People tend to vote the present tense – not the subjective.

There’s a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don’t like Picasso, that’s your problem.

Even the most meticulous historians work subjectively. The historian’s point of view, his or her selection of subject and sources, the emphasis, the tone – all of these lead to subjective history, inevitably so. I do not say this as a criticism, merely as an observation.

I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Fashion is so subjective, and I think it should be playful.

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It’s entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

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.

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.

Movie criticism is very subjective and everyone has the right to voice their opinion. You go to a movie and decide whether you like it or not.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

It’s a very subjective, personal, instinctive approach as musicians of saying, ‘We don’t want to replace what’s around; we just want to widen the possibilities.’

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can’t win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

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.

I know I can be great. I don’t really worry about that word ‘star’ too much though, ’cause I feel like that’s very subjective to the audience. But I know I can be great. I have the will, the want-to. I feel like God has blessed me with the physicals, I feel like for me it’s all mental.

Memory is not particularly linear – it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It’s why publishers don’t worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

Comedy is so subjective, you know what I mean? To sit there and technically pick it apart is so stupid.

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

All experience is subjective.

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

Sometimes we talk about memory as though it’s firm and fixed, but of course, memory is highly fluid and subjective and thus highly subject to manipulation.

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

Wine is similar to music in that it’s a purely experiential realm, and it’s a purely subjective practice. That’s sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it’s all about how you react to that music or wine.

Reviews are extremely subjective, but I have respect for them.

To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I’ve never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O’Hara.

Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections we have. In the gap, we experience loneliness. It’s distinct from the objective state of isolation, which is determined by the number of people around you.

For me, luxury is subjective.

We’ve had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We’ve gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.

Music is very subjective. You may or may not like a song, but folk and regional language have a connectivity that binds different people together, who slowly begin to relate to it.

Right and wrong are both very subjective, it’s all grey.

I experienced a lot of discrimination in the military. One commander told me that if my time of the month got in the way of my job, he would fire me. An instructor in pilot training continually failed me for subjective things, like judgment and situational awareness–I couldn’t get him to tell me what I was doing wrong.

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.

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn’t trust my own subjective responses.

Beauty is subjective, so people’s opinions don’t really matter.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

Comedy’s really subjective, you know; that’s why it’s so hard.

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

Whenever you write script without a director, you put in things that point toward a style in which the story will be told, a subjective style.

Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they’re objective.

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

It’s clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.

Realism is always subjective in film. There’s no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building – eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it’s not really cinema verite, because you aren’t actually there.

Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.

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.

There’s such a thing, if you’re a finance man, as hitting the figures you need to hit. But there’s no equivalent in acting. It’s a creative field. It’s subjective. That’s what I love about it.

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

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.

I think good taste is completely subjective. If you enjoy something, that’s great! Enjoy it, and don’t let anyone tell you not to.

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

I’m more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.

Confidence is the biggest swag, and that comes with success, which is subjective.

There’s a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, ‘What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.’ It’s always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be.

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.

From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.

Comedy isn’t subjective like music. You either get the laughs or you don’t.

Comedy is subjective.

Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I’m interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world.

I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.

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.

Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they’re inherently subjective. And that’s the danger, and I think as long as we’re aware of it and can push back against it, I don’t think that these two views are necessarily incompatible.

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

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I remember there was an argument about whether or not Big Foot was valid history. Ever since then I’ve been thinking about how subjective history is.

Everyone’s personal style evolves based on upbringing, exposure, influences, personality, etc. Style is subjective.

You know, there’s nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you’re doing, yourself, if you figure you’re doing the right thing.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you’re narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn’t work.

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

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.

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

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

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn’t beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

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.

Nutrition advice is, quite frankly, subjective.

Fashion is really funny because it’s something that should be subjective, but there are clear things that are chic or not chic. There are all these rules, but if the right person breaks a rule, then it becomes a trend.

What makes a lot of suspenseful films work is very, very particular points of view and very subjective use of the camera.

I keep trying to convince people that I’m OK to wrestle, and I think that’s probably the hard part. A lot of times I’m trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It’s really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that’s the part that a lot of people don’t understand.

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

But when you’re in something together, it’s very hard to be objective and you’re very subjective.

The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it – whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that’s always and everywhere a subjective decision.

I’ve had ‘Spanish Flea’ stuck in my head since 1998, so in a subjective sense, that is the song that’s playing whenever I enter a room.

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

Feminism is so subjective. Because of the generational divide, and because we’re living in a completely different world than someone in Africa or even Scotland.

With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

It’s always weird when it comes to awards and awards season because how can you say that this performance is better than this performance? Art is so subjective.

Humor is a very personal, subjective thing.

I’m open to comments. I’m open to objective points of view, because I’ve been very narrow and very subjective.

The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective.

There’s something about that idea of looking up and hoping, and thinking, ‘I’m good.’ Some things, like show business, are absolutely subjective. People look at a TV show and think, ‘I could do that.’ And maybe they could do that. But they’re not.

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

But I don’t actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

Human beings are inherently misled into subjective fantasies, but there’s a saving grace. We all have different delusions. Other people don’t necessarily share yours, and hence they will help you penetrate yours through the miracle of criticism!

Comedy is subjective, and any joke can be funny.

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There’s an objective and a subjective camera, like there’s a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

In my view, technology should only be used on objective situations – offside, in or out of the box, over the line or not – but when it comes to subjective situations, people are never going to agree. That’s sport.

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

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

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.

That is – the use of the subjective camera is an idea that’s been around in movies for a long, long time. And it’s an idea that was seized on very notably by Sam Fuller and by Alfred Hitchcock in two different very kind of – otherwise very different styles of filmmaking.

Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don’t believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it’s a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

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

Comedy’s really subjective, you know.

I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which is that music has value, it’s subjective and we’re moving to a new era where the audience is taking more responsibility for supporting artists at whatever level.

I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

‘Fairness’ can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court – whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law’s constitutionality.

A high IQ individual can’t deal in an industry that’s subjective.

I must say, I always – from experience, when I watch TV shows and I see characters leave without a proper explanation or leave with not enough time, I get irritated. I like it when there’s a clean-cut reason or a defining moment where they have to go. Whether that’s death or not, I think that’s subjective.

The point of my explanation is I’m very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out – but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.

Music is so subjective and personal, I don’t expect people to like everything I do. But that’s life and you have to live unapologetically.

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it’s like sexiness.

Comedy is so subjective. If you trip and fall down, some people will laugh, and some people will say, ‘Oh, physical comedy is so pedestrian.’ Some people look at Three Stooges as lowbrow; some people consider them artists. No one is wrong. It’s just a personal take.

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

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

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it’s funny. You’re just sitting there like, ‘Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?’ It’s such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

Skating is a very subjective sport where fans have their favorites.

The Ballon d’Or is a subjective matter.

‘Darkness’ is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

I think that first-person narration is very characteristic of contemporary optics, in which the individual performs the role of subjective center of the world.

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