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Subject Matter Quotes by Henri Matisse
- It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or…
- A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...
- What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence…
More Subject Matter Quotes
- I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. — Lynda Barry
- I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my… — David Bowie
- Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk… — Carter Burwell
- A woman is subject matter enough. — Claude Chabrol
- 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
- Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter… — Freeman Patterson
- At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years… — Henry Cuellar
- The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter. — Nel Noddings
- The workmanship was better than the subject matter. — Ovid
- The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel. — Kenneth Koch
- As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with… — James Whistler
- People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the… — Adam Arkin