My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Room 10 [a short film she codirected with Andrea Buchanan] nailed my personal theme: love and choosing to stay in the room… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
So 'Nier Automata' feels like a story about androids but no, the main theme of 'Automata' is human. — Yoko Taro Copy Share Image
I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines. — Robert Wise Copy Share Image
I can remember hearing the theme tune to Dallas when I was supposed to be in bed. I would sneak down and… — Ashley Madekwe Copy Share Image
In all the background scores I do, I take care to see that the theme enriches the storyline and does not deviate… — Vidyasagar Copy Share Image
I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the… — Deana Carter Copy Share Image
We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures.… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You're treated as though you're just a piece of meat, and you're there for consumption by men. I feel like the common… — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Copy Share Image
First, my frame of reference for the Britten opera shifted. I'd always thought of Britten's approach in Death in Venice as another… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
What is high birth to him to whom high birth has never been the theme of his contemplation? What is a throne… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes. — Lorna Simpson Copy Share Image
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch… — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
I got asked to remix a lot of movie themes, like Mission Impossible, which other people ended up doing quite well. But… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme -… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image