Read quote“We're talking about our reality, whatever we see when we open our window, whatever we talk to our families.”
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About Subjectivity
Personal perspective, lived experience, interpretation, and the limits of objective knowledge.
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Words on Subjectivity
Read quote“Nunca la cámara es objetiva.”
Read quote“The borders of our minds are ever shifting.”
Read quote“I prefer my vision until the artist shows me otherwise, which they often do.”
Read quote“I am the canvas.”
Read quote“Please don't tell me what's funny, cos I know what's funny. And you probably don't.”
Read quote“I was kind of getting claustrophobic in my own face.”
Read quote“There are people the sea doesn’t suit, they prefer the mountains or the plain. Personally, I feel no worse there than anywhere else.”
Read quote“The “I” does not refer to the subject of the speaker in the same way as the name Bina Gupta does. The “I” is not a name.”
Read quote“There is no single interpretation.”
Read quote“La verdad meramente subjetiva es una quimera.”
Read quote“The truth of the matter is that there is no ascertainable face behind the various masks every story-teller is creating.”
Read quote“Uno es más que su yo profundo, que su posición metafísica; hay otras cosas que cuentan.”
Read quote“The issue is not freeing ourselves from representation.”
Read quote“I never liked the man I loved, and I never loved the man I liked.”
Read quote“Tout notre contact avec le monde a lieu à travers le corps, toute l’intentionnalité sensible passe par le corps.”
Read quote“He kept all these things locked up in a box, but it was the box of his ‘memory.’”
Read quote“In the personal self, the social is individualised.”
Read quote“If you understand yourself [from the outside] too well, you paralyse yourself.”
Read quote“IDENTITY WILL BE CONVULSIVE OR WILL NOT EXIST.”
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