Your Subject Quotes

40 quotes by 34 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Donâ€™t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You canâ€™t rush inspiration. â€¦ Once your subject finds you, itâ€™s like falling in… — Colson Whitehead
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
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
It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject. — Cass Gilbert
The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter. — Keith Carter
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
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
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
Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject. — Joyce Carol Oates
When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously. — Horace
You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time. — Ken Burns
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
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

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