I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my… — Paul Emsley Copy Share Image
Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very… — Richard King Copy Share Image
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! — Rex Reed Copy Share Image
Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that… — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up.… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything… — Brendan Bayliss Copy Share Image
A few of my books, over the years, have been optioned for film. The subject matter of my books, however, is not… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
The shows you can do in cable are just more buzzworthy and are about subject matter that's more unusual or dark. And… — Robert Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I?m lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into… — Cathy Guisewite Copy Share Image
“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'.… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
It cannot be too strongly asserted that the insistence on blind, unreasoning faith is due mainly to the maintenance of a subject-matter… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not the best… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Nothing can be left until the last minute, so that everyone knows exactly where they are. Everyone is comfortable and everyone feels… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter. — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
Most of my subject matter was all kind of, like, party stuff, jewelry and cars. It was really just, you know, shallow. — Gucci Mane Copy Share Image
It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology… — William Webb Copy Share Image
Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one. — Fairfield Porter Copy Share Image
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing. — Ed Harris Copy Share Image
'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story. — Roland Emmerich Copy Share Image
There's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter. — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable. — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
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