Subject Quotes

My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades.

I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.

The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations

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.

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

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

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and 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 films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

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

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

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

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

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.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

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

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.

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That favorite subject, Myself.

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.

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.

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.

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 think my most favorite subject was Lena Horne, because she embodies soul and grace and elegance and 'street'. She embodies everything. And beauty — great beauty.

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.

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.