Best My Subject Quotes
43 My Subject quotes by 37 unique authors
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Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
— Giacomo Casanova
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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.
— Richard Schmid
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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
— Ernest Hemingway
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For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
— Annie Leibovitz
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I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by…
— Flannery O'Connor
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I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is…
— Alfred de Vigny
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As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.
— Parker J. Palmer
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I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.
— Frank Bruno
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My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of the…
— Alex Grey
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Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken.…
— Ernst Haas
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I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is a very strong…
— Mike Nichols
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Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am really there, so…
— Alison Weir
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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
— Wilfred Owen
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At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some…
— David Crystal
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I have developed a visionary modern lyric, and, for it, an idiom in which I can write lyrically, colloquially, and dramatically. My subject is city…
— Unknown Author
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