Oscar Levant Quotes

I have an opinion. I have my own taste.

Everyone's going to have their own experience and perspective on everything.

We all look at the same object in different ways.

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.

I am not a tree-hugger and I don't think mine is an extreme point of view.

I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.

I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I liked to step across the imaginary boundary of the objective view that the journalist is supposed to have and be involved.

I just can't help but see things differently.

There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.

I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

My friends, in this country we are entitled to many viewpoints. You are entitled to yours, but right now, I am entitled to mine.

I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.

As a writer, I'm always mindful that not everyone is going to feel the same way I do about something, so my emotions are just my emotions.

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

People have got their opinions, and you can't please everyone.

A lot of people advise me about the things that I need to do and shouldn't do, but I feel there is no right or wrong in the industry.

Of course, design is a very personal thing: what I like, you may not like.

My view is my view. Your view is your view.

I do represent a different aesthetic to drag, I have a different point of view with everything.

Everybody is entitled to his own opinion.

No, I don't think you're ever an objective observer. By making a frame you're being selective, then you edit the pictures you want published and you're being selective again. You develop a point of view that you want to express. You try to go into a situation with an open mind, but then you form an opinion, and you express it in your photographs.