His Subject Quotes
52 quotes by 47 authors
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his…
— Leonard Cohen
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I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international sports and I…
— James McKeen Cattell
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The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
— Lucian Freud
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I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the…
— George Orwell
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Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.
— Betty Edwards
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A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding…
— Edward Weston
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A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
— Gilbert Highet
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The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.
— Evan Esar
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As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist's responsibility…
— Hermann Joseph Muller
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Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough…
— Noah Lukeman
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The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning…
— Edward Weston
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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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…
— Bruce Barnbaum
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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…
— Robert Wise
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The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in…
— Lucian Freud
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Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of…
— Randall Kennedy
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Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals
— Jack Ramsay
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We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.
— Henry James
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Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging…
— Richard Corliss
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