Subject Matter Quotes - Page 6

• Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.

  B. J. Porter

  Writing, Jewels, Talking

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.

  Steven Spielberg

  Matter, Sometimes, Imagine

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

  Sophie Blackall

  Artist, Thinking, Arrogance

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the things I try to do is try to make repetitions, rhymes, and mirrorings across the subject matter of my own books so that the chapter titles and the epigraphs and pictures all kind of form a tapestry. In this book, I retell fifteen of the stories. You have the critical frame, and then you have these rosettes like the motif in a carpet.

  Marina Warner

  Book, Trying, Titles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a piece of music with themes, etc.

  Hilton Als

  Book, Names, Musical

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages.

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, Space, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Mind, Want

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• There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Matter, Manifestation, Subjects

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not something I've ever worked on consciously. I think style is just the end result of personal experience. It would be problematic for me to photograph in another style. I'm drawn to places and subject matter that have personal connections for me and I photograph in a way that seems right. Where does it all come from, who knows?

  Michael Kenna

  Thinking, Style, Signatures

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• Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Editors, Saws, Looks

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• I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Thinking, Matter, Trouble

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• It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in shaping human understanding and artistic expression thereof within any given culture-regardless of the subject matter at hand.

  John Walford

  Religious, Art, Expression

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• . . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have a moral or civic responsibility to this project of memory that ought to influence the way he or she engages in historical practice? Should moral concerns influence the historian's choice of subject matter, of issues to discuss, of evidence to use?

  Michael L Morgan

  Memories, Responsibility, Past

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• Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.

  Fairfield Porter

  Doe, Matter, Normal

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• I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.

  Frank Bruno

  Beautiful, Sports, Art

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• We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.

  Brendan Bayliss

  Song, Fun, Writing

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• [It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)

  Neil Postman

  Television, Matter, Entertainment

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• Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There's a lot of restriction for contemporary films simply because of subject matter.

  Donnie Yen

  Choices, Cinema, Matter

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• I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I'm very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject.

  Steven Spielberg

  Eye, Thinking, Style

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• Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.

  Simon Sinek

  Entrepreneur, Experts, Purpose

  "Two Types of Experts" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.

  Simon Sinek

  Book, Writing, Giving

  "Two Types of Experts" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• 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

  Character, Thinking, Matter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be . . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants . . . [it was] always poetic to me.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Thinking, Pie, World

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

  Lucian

  Memories, Matter, Sensuality

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• Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Mean, Zest

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