Top 604 Subjective Quotes & Sayings

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

Change is always subjective.

Writing, for me, is a combination of objective and subjective approach. You take an objective approach at times to get you through things, and you take a subjective approach at other times, and that allows you to find an emotional experience for the audience.

Accomplishments are very subjective.

Comedy is subjective.

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 me, luxury is subjective.

We've created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective. It pays to be subjective as much as possible. It's a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket. I'm glad we found it actually.

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

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

Comedy's really subjective, you know.

This is the beauty of the democratic process: it permits that subjective view of justice - which everyone holds - permits that subjective way to express itself peacefully through discussion, through reason and through the voting process.

Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.

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

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

There's a floating distraction in the contemporary world, life at a distance enabled by technology. I want people to commit at the level of their subjectivity. The idea of subjective commitment is at the core of ethics, something that divides the self from itself. I become an ethical self. I cannot meet that ideal, I cannot fulfill it, it divides me from myself and it makes me strive harder. This ideal subjective ethical drive is at the heart of an absolutely earnest, radical politics that insists that people will be able to engage with each other, and they're lifted from irony at that point.

Independence is a very subjective assessment.

To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular.

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

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

Love is very subjective.

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

Photography is very subjective. Photography is not a document on which a report can be made. It is a subjective document. Photography is a false witness, a lie.

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.

The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.

The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

The camera is as subjective as we are.

From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.

Comedy is subjective, and any joke can be funny.

I work from a subjective palette.

I know music is subjective.

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

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

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

Humor is a very personal, subjective thing.

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

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

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

Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections.

The thing I love about golf is that it's all on me. I can't blame another player, the wind, or even blame a bad round on one chunked shot. It's not subjective at all. Meanwhile, acting is very subjective. I can be the best actor and not get the job.

Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation. Putting my subjective feelings into an objective form and then on to you for a subjective interpretation.

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.

Movies are very subjective.

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

I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective.

Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch.

Nutrition advice is, quite frankly, subjective.

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

Truth is such a subjective thing.

The Ballon d'Or is a subjective matter.

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

Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to religion and morality, and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. That is how the Advaitic system gets its whole force, on the subjective side of man.

We were on the way to democracy. We didn't say that we are fully democratic, we were on the way, we were moving forward. Slowly or fast, that's subjective, cannot be objective, that's always subjective. But we're moving forward in that regard.

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

All experience is subjective.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.