Subjective Worth Quotes

When I was a kid, I reckoned things in Hershey bars. Is this worth three Hershey bars to me?

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn't endure, or can't be logically proved and pinned down, it's worthless.

The value of a thought cannot be told.

My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.

I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

What is aught but as 'tis valued?

To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.

I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life.

Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.

You cannot say that all experience is of equal value for all people.

The idea that everyone's opinion is valuable is sometimes up for question.

What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.