If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary,… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle… — Eric Maisel 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
[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
As an actor, you want new challenges. U.S. TV can be very formulaic. So when something gets a reaction, as 'The Slap'… — Jonathan LaPaglia 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 first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
History, when rightly written, is but a record of providence; and he who would read history rightly, must read it with his… — D. A. Fisher Copy Share Image
There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter.… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
All the subject matter I talk about isn't new; all comics talk about the same things. But it's how you talk about… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I always love it best when you have a project where there is this commingling of the subject matter and the way… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows… — Margaret Spellings Copy Share Image
I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
To be joining 'The Hunger Games' family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it's well written, handles really big… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject… — Tom Wesselmann Copy Share Image
The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Essentially, I look for what is interesting to me, out there in the three-dimensional world, and translate or interpret so that it… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in All cultures have… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Far too often scripts are being written with race in mind, but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to any conversation on… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
And it sort of hit me that the very subject matter of the film that I'm dealing with is the key to… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print.… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
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