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In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of… — Bruce Lee
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know — Woodrow Wilson
An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his… — Robert Henri
The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter… — Elwyn Brooks White
The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and… — Andreas Feininger
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation… — Harriet Martineau
What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects… — Robert Adams
The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore… — Christopher Zeeman
While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that… — Walter J. Phillips
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him. — Rachel Carson
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. — Wallace Stegner
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. — George Will
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. — Arthur Schopenhauer
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break… — Fulton J. Sheen
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins… — Andrei Tarkovsky
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them. — Werner Heisenberg
An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for… — Karl Popper
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:… — Jacques Barzun
Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential. — Robert Henri
To teach effectively a teacher must develop a feeling for his subject; he cannot make his students sense its vitality if he does not sense… — George Polya
Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate… — G. H. Hardy
I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine. — Bill Condon
The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God:… — Jonathan Mayhew
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a… — Alberto Giacometti

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