Subject Matter Quotes

Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

I take my job seriously, which means I'm going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.

To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.

In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.

I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages.

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

Some people have subject matter expertise in one thing. Some people tend to be creative but not reliable, and others are reliable but not creative. Everybody has different dimensions.

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.

It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter. But you learn as you go, I suppose.

If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth.

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.

I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.

Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.

I always love it best when you have a project where there is this commingling of the subject matter and the way in which you're recording that subject matter.

The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.

Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.

I'm really attracted to authors who take on really tricky material with a very open mind and take a subject matter that you wouldn't think would be a comedy.

Everyone has been to school. Everyone has a sense of classroom dynamics and politics, regardless of subject matter. And if you've lived long enough, everyone hits a big life transition.

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

I'm fascinated by offensive subject matter. Always have been. It is very natural to me, as any teach I've ever had growing up could attest.

There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to find the task of photographing it difficult.

If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life.

In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

I encourage playfulness and experimentation with both the camera and subject matter. Sometimes there is an obvious perspective, but it is important never to be satisfied with that.

Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable.