Subject Matter Quotes

195 Subject Matter quotes by 168 unique authors

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from… — Jackson Pollock
I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include… — James Rollins
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. — Jerry Saltz
The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch,… — Jerry Saltz
When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and… — Jerry Saltz
I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique. — Martin Scorsese
Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort… — Martin Scorsese
Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others.… — Simon Sinek
Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a… — Simon Sinek
I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director,… — Steven Spielberg
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. — Wallace Stegner
All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems… — Max Weber
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. — Edward Weston
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There's… — Donnie Yen
[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The… — Neil Postman
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life,… — Azar Nafisi
We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a… — Elie Wiesel
I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that… — Tobias Wolff
I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won’t… — Rick Riordan
You’re a guardian angel now.”.... I’m your guardian angel,” he said. “I get my very own guardian angel? What, exactly, is your job description?” “Guard… — Becca Fitzpatrick
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of… — Margaret Mead
I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art. — Frank Bruno
I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we can about a… — John Lasseter
So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts… — Andy Warhol
Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph. — Martin Parr

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