Malcolm-Jamal Warner Quotes

The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth

We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

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.

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

Common sense to one person might be something different to another.

The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.

I have my opinions about the way my father was. But they are my opinions, not necessarily the truth, and they are certainly not the whole spectrum of what this man was going through. It's my young, selfish interpretation of that person.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

People like things that make sense to them; your perspective is your reality.

But, at the end of the day, you live in the world with billions of people, and everyone has a unique upbringing and experience.

An adjective, such as 'flimsy,' describes someone's access to a thing, such as 'argument.' But that's just that someone's access. It may be accurate. But it's theirs nevertheless.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.

I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.