Real Subject Quotes
- Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and… — Johannes Brahms
- When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe.… — Annie Dillard
- Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both… — Robert Motherwell
- THE DYING GAUL is a Hollywood satire. But Hollywood is not the real subject matter here. My play uses that world of high-rolling big money… — Craig Lucas
- History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. — Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
- What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of… — Paul Volcker
- Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.