Quotes About Subject

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

My own perception of Malcolm was one of something that bordered on fascination because I was looking at him and reacting to him as a subject.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.

When you spend a year or two researching a subject, and you're still fascinated by it, that's a good indicator that what you're doing will appeal to others, as well.

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it produces the proper subject and causes the proper actions.

Aging for me is not a condition but a subject.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Men are subject to powerful passions and appetites, and, if unrestrained, are capable of ruthlessly riding roughshod over their neighbors and the community at large.

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.

English was always my favorite subject.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.