Your Subject Quotes
40 quotes by 34 authors
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Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole…
— Freeman Patterson
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If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if…
— William James
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Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interesting…
— Mary Ellen Mark
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The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the…
— Margaret Bourke-White
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The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its…
— John Jay Chapman
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Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling in…
— Colson Whitehead
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Innovation involves anticipation. It is having a broad base of knowledge on your subject and an ability to see where the end game is headed.…
— Bill Walsh
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Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to…
— Cesar Chavez
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It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.
— Cass Gilbert
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The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.
— Keith Carter
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The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If…
— Harry Callahan
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Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a…
— Al Hirschfeld
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If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me…
— Ben Shahn
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Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.
— Horace
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You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.
— Ken Burns
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As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In…
— Amy Waldman
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Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one…
— William Morris Hunt
Who Wrote These Your Subject Quotes
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