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I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and measured.' I have difficulty thinking that's the way we experience things.

— Shane Carruth

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

— Ricky Williams

I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.

— Bernard Sumner

I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.

— Miguel

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

— Janet Echelman

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.

— Paula Cole

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

— Alva Noto

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

— Bryant H. McGill

It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

— Octavio Paz

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think that when we're looking at things when we're right in the center of things, as opposed to being a bit unmoored from what's going on around us, we see things through a kind of dulling lens of convention, and there's something about extreme emotional experiences that gives us a heightened clarity, I think, of thought and of feeling.

— Jenny Offill

When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it.

— Josh Holloway