subjective definition Quotes

When you make a film, everyone wants to define it.

God is beyond definition. But according to one's own vision or receptivity, one will define God in one's own way. Some will say that God is all Love. Others will say that God is all Power. Each one will see God according to his own necessity, his own receptivity and, finally, according to the way God wants him to see the ultimate Truth.

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

Art is what everyone knows it is.

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so WHY push to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree is WHERE you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these, and anyway, WHEN did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person WHO lives inside your skin? The outside belongs to others. Only you should decide for you - WHAT is perfect.

Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.