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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.… — Leonard Cohen
• I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international… — Unknown Author
• The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. — Lucian Freud
• I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be… — George Orwell
• Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his… — Betty Edwards
• A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
• The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon… — Edward Weston
• A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. — Gilbert Highet
• The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself. — Evan Esar
• As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become… — Hermann Joseph Muller
• Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and… — Noah Lukeman
• 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

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