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We think too fast, even while walking or on the way, or while engaged in other things, no matter how serious the subject.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The beginning of a novel: start a subject, no matter where, and to have the desire to finish, start with very beautiful phrases.
— Charles Baudelaire
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
— Jeffery Deaver
I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
— Lynda Barry
To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.
— Jerry Springer
The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.
— Gertrude Stein
To paraphrase Forrest Gump, Ugly is, as Ugly does!
— Lorene Stunson Hill
I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
— Laura Hillenbrand
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.
— Carl Gustav Hempel
The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.
— Keith Carter
The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves.
— Neal Stephenson
And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.
— Oscar Zeta Acosta
Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.
— Martin Scorsese
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
— Edward Weston
Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.
— Martin Parr
In the case of 'The Lovely Bones,' I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare.
— Peter Jackson
What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.
— Russell Smith
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
— Jerry Saltz
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
— James Mark Baldwin
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
— Alan Ayckbourn
I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
— Ed Harris
No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.
— Ingrid Bengis
In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.
— Ben Mendelsohn
Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.
— Fairfield Porter
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
— Mark Rothko
I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States.
— Kyle MacLachlan
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.
— Virgil Thomson
Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
— Anish Kapoor
I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.
— Frank Bruno
The subject matter of the stories on the surface ... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.
— Kenneth Koch
Photography ... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.
— Joan Fontcuberta
The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.
— Louis Kronenberger
The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.
— Alexander Theroux
Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?
— Jeanette Winterson
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!
— Cynthia Ozick
The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.
— Meladee McCarty
And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.
— Dierks Bentley
A woman is subject matter enough.
— Claude Chabrol
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
— Bernard Malamud
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.
— Thomas Struth
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
I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
— Jack Prelutsky
With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.
— Chris Raschka
The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi.
— Frederick Lenz
I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny.
— Joan Severance
Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.
— Bertrand Russell
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
— Alfred North Whitehead
Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.
— Rene Huyghe
As for the subject matter in my painting ... it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.
— William Baziotes
Method is always tied to subject matter, and in dealing with life in general there is no such thing as a single scientific method.
— Dallas Willard
No matter how you cut it, biological science is based to some degree on humanizing the subject matter.
— Bruce H. Lipton
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter ...
— Henri Matisse
Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.
— Claude Monet
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.
— Madeleine L'Engle
In nature everything is connected, interwoven, subject to natural law. We cannot separate ourselves from that, no matter how hard we try.
— Jeffrey R. Anderson
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
— Robert Motherwell
theology is the rare science that finds it necessary to demonstrate the very existence of its subject matter.
— Sherwin T. Wine
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
— Kenneth Noland
I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.
— Corey Smith
The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.
— John French Sloan
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
— Harrison Birtwistle
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.
— James Whistler
I'm fascinated by offensive subject matter. Always have been. It is very natural to me, as any teach I've ever had growing up could attest.
— Anthony Jeselnik
All inventions are not patentable, and all patented subjects are not inventions.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the author.
— Boris Pasternak
Sick people are everywhere. Just watch Criminal Minds.""If that's their subject matter, I'm thinkin' I'll avoid it. — Kristen Ashley
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
— Lucian Freud
