Quotes about Subjectivity

You Know what, sometimes it seems to me we've living in a world that fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves...And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problems is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other

When a god is fashioned into a golden commodity (or even lesser material); divine subject becomes divine object, and agent becomes commodity.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not the mirror.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

so interesting and a really remarkable face, though perhaps not strictly good-looking, and all the more interesting for that, because good-looking people are so often cows.

We don't see the world as it is; we see the world as we are.

But in the end, one-sided views make for pretty flat-looking works of art.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Faith involves a certain subjectivity, ... a subjectivity which has meaning only as it is bound to the gospel.

The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.

if everything is historically relative, then so is the idea of historicism itself.