Subject Matter Quotes - Page 11

• There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.

  Bill Watterson

  Voice, Different, Gone

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• George Orwells 1984 frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: its not a celebration of poetic language. Its decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what 1984 shows is that language can be a dirty trick.

  Graham Joyce

  Dirty, Book, Political

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• I just tend to think about everyday things for my onstage act. Actually you know what I like to talk about just the absolute most - the more mundane the subject matter, the more interesting it is to me.

  Brian Regan

  Thinking, Everyday Things, Interesting

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• Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.

  Rene Huyghe

  Ideas, Feelings, Matter

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• See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

  Helen Van Wyk

  Play, Musician, Matter

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• I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine that I'm an audience member. I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. There are other types of genre films that I need to be able to direct from the audience, to be right next to you watching the picture being made.

  Steven Spielberg

  Needs, Matter, Able

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• I take my job seriously, which means I'm going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Jobs, Mean, Needs

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

  George Soros

  Objectivity, Investing, Matter

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are 'entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the subject and in people's interest in it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Drama, Real, Successful

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.301, Princeton University Press

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• The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

  Kenneth Koch

  Travel, Numbers, Stories

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• 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

  Art, Color, Sight

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

  Adam Arkin

  Thinking, People, Romance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the risk of having nothing more than a philosophical fiction as its subject matter.

  Alfred Mele

  Running, Philosophical, Risk

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• Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.

  John Dewey

  Education, Communication, Science

  John Dewey (1978). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.77, SIU Press

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• ... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since more is known about the analogy than is known about the subject matter of the theory itself ... A collection of observable concepts in a purely formal hypothesis suggesting no analogy with anything would consequently not suggest either any directions for its own development.

  Mary Hesse

  Science, Analogies, Development

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• The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it to vanish from being. Mathematical propositions, if true, are eternal verities.

  Cassius Jackson Keyser

  Independent, World, Matter

  Cassius Jackson Keyser (1929). “The pastures of wonder: the realm of mathematics and the realm of science”

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• To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.

  Eric Maisel

  Moving, Book, Artist

  Eric Maisel (2013). “Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals”, p.200, New World Library

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• I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

  Margaret Spellings

  Teacher, Kids, Thinking

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.

  Tobias Wolff

  Witty, Depressing, Stories

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• 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

  Looks, Stories, Records

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• The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

  Daniel Craig

  Thinking, Squad, Matter

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• In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.

  Orson Welles

  Country, Fake, Special

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• When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Vision, Patterns

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Matter, Taste

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• 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

  Art, Matter, Beholder

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, p. 413, 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), 1972.

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