Quotes About Subject
If women have failed to make "universal" art because we're trapped within the "personal," why not universalize the "personal" and make it the subject of our art?
~ Chris Kraus
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If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.
~ Chris Kraus
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And that was what all the expressions felt like— masks. I didn't believe them. They were too thorough, too nuanced; they were never at odds with his subject matter.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
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I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
~ Helmut Newton
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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
~ Henri Matisse
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At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.
~ Henri-Frdric Amiel
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ECONOMICS IS HAUNTED by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics or medicine—the special pleading of selfish interests.
~ Henry Hazlitt
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There is, I think, no more nutritive or suggestive truth… than that of the perfect dependence of the "moral" sense of a work of art on the amount of felt life concerned in producing it. The question comes back thus, obviously, to the kind and the degree of the artist's prime sensibility, which is the soil out of which his subject springs.
~ Henry James
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He has been the subject of two major documentary films, Your Life in Their Hands, which won the Royal Television Society Gold Medal, and The English Surgeon, which won an Emmy,
~ Henry Marsh
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The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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They say that that's a difficult task, that nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful," he began with a smile. "But I'll try. Get me a subject. It all lies in the subject. If a subject's given me, it's easy to spin something round it. I often think that the celebrated talkers of the last century would have found it difficult to talk cleverly now. Everything clever is so stale…
~ Leo Tolstoy
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If there be a single law governing the actions of men, freewill cannot exist, for man's will would be subject to that law.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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The theme is everything. Once one has a theme, it is easy to embroider on it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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It made Kate wonder how such a lazy, irresponsible person could've gotten his hands on all that money, but adults never explained contradictions like that. They only ever changed the subject.
~ Lev Grossman
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Non-fiction about personal subjects is going to attract more user comments than a foreign correspondent writing from Syria - unfortunately.
~ Meghan Daum
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A journalist uses the most precise words he or she can. An artist does the same sort of thing. You gather material about a particular subject, you refine it as best you can.
~ Ken Loach
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It really helps if you know your subject matter immediately. I find that enormously useful because then you can concentrate on all the usual novelistic things - the character, the plot and so forth - and you don't have to spend an enormous amount of time learning another trade, essentially.
~ Gregory Benford
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So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.
~ Joseph Hume
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We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
~ Mark Rothko
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Validation is easy - you run your site through a validator, and it's either valid or it isn't. The rest of the stuff, such as whether my logo or the biggest headline should be the h1 in my HTML, isn't so easy and is subject to interpretation.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
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No eran simpleas acumulaciones de palabras dispuestas escrupulosamente sobre un página para ofrecer la impresión de realidad... Cada uno de aquellos volúmenes era realidad. La similitud de esos libros con los ejemplares que había leido en mi hogar no era mayor que la similitud de una fotografía con su sujeto: ¡aquellos libros estaban vivos !
~ Jasper Fforde
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era un católico de misa diaria, un hombre lleno de buenas intenciones y un creyente en la bondad natural del ser humano. En definitiva, un sujeto peligroso.
~ Javier Cercas
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