Subject Matter Quotes

195 Subject Matter quotes by 168 unique authors

The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain… — Blake Bailey
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
I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the… — Mark Millar
I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy, and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes… — Jada Pinkett Smith
I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me! — Tea Obreht
When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go… — Tea Obreht
I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort… — Anson Mount
The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense… — Isaac Marion
The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of. — Bernie Mac
I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied… — Bernadette Devlin
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music. — Virgil Thomson
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same… — Milton Avery
I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing… — Chester Brown
Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science… — Julian Baggini
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. — Harrison Birtwistle
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the… — Jeffery Deaver
The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to… — Wilhelm Dilthey
The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives… — Sherman Alexie
And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter. — Dierks Bentley
I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It's hard to… — Black Francis
I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best… — Gerry Beckley
I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' as we wrote about on the last Duran Duran album.… — Nick Rhodes
There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity. — Lee Hammond
All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but… — Ernst Gombrich
The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it… — Wallace Stevens

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