Art Subjectivity Quotes

Art is very subjective and having to put numbers on it seems counterintuitive.

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

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

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

The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

I struggle with the idea of comparing people's work and art. The notion of giving awards or putting a competitive spin on something that is a relative art form is sort of odd to me.

Music is nothing but sound, and there is no place for value judgement among various sounds.

You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.

I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting.... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting.

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.

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.

The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.