Art Is Subjective Quotes

#1. There's a difference between the 'art' of writing and the 'craft' of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, but craft is objective. There is a right way and a wrong way to craft.

Gerard De Marigny

#2. I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

Billy Boyd

#3. Art is subjective and art as a form of entertainment escapism is as high art as any.

Miranda Hart

#4. Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

Ken Danby

#5. The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#6. Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective,
of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and
therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

Hermann Hesse

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

Jerry Saltz

#9. The less courage you have, the more dwarf you shall be; the more courage you have, the more giant you shall be!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

William Shakespeare

#11. God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

F Scott Fitzgerald

#12. Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

Sara Blecher

#13. I have little or no concern at how people interpret my writing, my only concern is to write it.

Robert Black

#14. 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.

Tim Crouch

#15. Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.

Egon Friedell

#16. To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.

Michael Frayn

#17. [The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art, the other regarding geology as an exact science.

Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen

#18. If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party.

Michael Audain

#19. An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Laurence J. Peter

#20. There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as about what is in front of it.

Robert Adams

#21. Guess what? Faisal Shahzad is a registered Democrat. I wonder if his SUV had an Obama sticker on it.

Rush Limbaugh

#22. In the example of the navigator, no writing was essential to draw the meaning of observing the object at a distance from the ship. In the real the
observation has been noted and that is enough to give it a meaning, a subjective meaning, a meaning exclusively important for the navigator himself.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#23. I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'

Sean Astin

#24. 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.

Tom Stoppard

#25. 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.

Deepak Chopra

#26. 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

#27. The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between subjective and objective.

Piet Mondrian

#28. 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.

Danny Huston

#29. That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view is that the interpretative artist can only make his own comment upon the work.

Tyrone Guthrie

#30. Prosthetics can fix physical disabilities. But no prosthetic can fix an amputated spirit. So, don't let the society devoid you from your own spirit. Be brave and upright, and delve into even the depth of doom to achieve your goal.

Abhijit Naskar

#31. Ask one hundred people to explain love. And you'll get one hundred different answers. Because love is like art, it's subjective. Fluid. Ever-changing. Evolving. Case

Kim Holden

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

Jennifer Aniston

#33. Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

Whoopi Goldberg

#34. Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I mean? I think there can be an art in the way people live their lives, and art can be a gift someone gives to somebody.

Kathleen Hanna