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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

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me! — Tea Obreht

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

As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my folks. — Alice Walker

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. — Lynda Barry

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with. — Keith Carter

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different. — Jerry Springer

The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God. — Katy Perry

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

I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated. — Woody Allen

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

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways. — Richard King

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 guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way. — Jill Davis

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 story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me. — Lupe Fiasco

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

Usually, the subject matter of the image is not the subject of the work. — Roni Horn

I'm always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters. — Nicole Kidman

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

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter. — Paul Emsley

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

A letter is the most basic - yet the most flexible - mode of correspondence, regardless of its subject matter. — Scribendi

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer. — Gordon Parks

I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience. — Diane Paulus

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away. — Anish Kapoor

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. — Wallace Stegner

The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. — Oscar Wilde

The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter. — Zoe Sugg

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

My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades. — Edward Ruscha

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

Not seek for exactness in all matters alike, but in each according to the subject-matter, and so far as properly belongs to the system. — Aristotle.

Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject. — Peter Atkins

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

President Obama and Hillary Clinton, every time you disagree with them it doesn't matter which subject it is, you're a bigot or you're a racist. — Jan Brewer

A woman is subject matter enough. — Claude Chabrol

Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! — Rex Reed

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 figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there. — Jim Dine

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 student is infinitely more important than the subject matter. — Nel Noddings

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

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption. — Jim Sturgess

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

My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself. — Uta Barth

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

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material. — John Dewey

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

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. — Quintilian

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

The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really. — Lucian

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

Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think. — Rachel Kushner

The workmanship was better than the subject matter. — Ovid

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

There's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter. — Sophie Blackall

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is. — Clifford Geertz