Subject Matter Quotes - Page 9

• The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get a really strong photograph.

  Andy Summers

  Photography, Strong, People

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• I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.

  Andy Summers

  Photography, People, Doorways

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• I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Thinking, Looks

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

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• As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me. My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.

  Adrian Belew

  Song, Inspiration, Ideas

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• 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

  Photography, Trying, Alive

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• 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

  Growing Up, Matter, Offensive

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• I think a lot of times, artists and albums can become formulaic. You're known for a certain thing, and you continue to do that. You just change the subject matter, but it's the same song. And that's what you do.

  Eric Church

  Song, Artist, Thinking

  Source: radio.com

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• I would never stop watching film. The reason why I say I like the old ones is I like the subject matter better. I thought they had more variety to them, they had more romantic comedies and things that appealed to me more.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Matter, Reason Why, Comedy

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.

  Lou Reed

  Writing, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing.

  Clive James

  Giving Up, Wall, Artist

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Ellen Rolfes, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

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• One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

  Francis Bacon

  Reality, Matter, Structure

  Francis Bacon, Rudy Chiappini, Palazzo reale di Milano (2008). “Bacon”, Skira - Berenice

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• Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet it requires little understanding of the subject matter at hand. It's like world politics meets the pink questions in Trivial Pursuit. Points are made but nothing gets accomplished.

  John Mayer

  Hands, Talking, Understanding

  Esquire Magazine, in the column "The Resident Rock Star: JOHN MAYER", July 1, 2004.

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• Experience, in short, is not a combination of mind and world, subject and object, method and subject matter, but is a single continuous interaction of a great diversity (literally countless in number) of energies.

  John Dewey

  Numbers, Diversity, Mind

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.125, 谷月社

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• Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the test in the way that the impersonal physical world can be subjected to experimental enquiry. Yet science and theology have this in common, that each can be, and should be defended as being investigations of what is, the search for increasing verisimilitude in our understanding of reality.

  John Polkinghorne

  Reality, Understanding, Tests

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• You have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter. If you do it for other causes, other reasons, it doesn't hold you for a long time. There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.

  Haile Gerima

  Struggle, Long, Matter

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• How can you make informed decisions ... ? The key seems to be to gather experts who are knowledgeable and passionate about the subject matter, and have them cooperatively discuss a series of questions designed to explore the limits of technical feasibility.
  They must strive to reach the best decision rather than to persuade each other.

  Peter Norvig

  Keys, Decision, Experts

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• Well, I think there was a time when I first started that there was such a thing called 'a woman's film' and there were certain scripts that women would make. But I think that's changed a lot now. I think that if a woman director walks into a room with a script, it doesn't really matter what the subject matter is, or the genre is, so long as the financiers feel that the woman has the skills to make the film.

  Gurinder Chadha

  Thinking, Genre Is, Skills

  "It's A Wonderful Afterlife - Gurinder Chadha interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think that the good thing about working smaller and being a smaller company that doesn't have to make as much to make money back is that you don't have to worry about, well, critics like this and they'll tell people to buy it, but millions of people might say, 'Oh, well I'm not interested in that subject matter' and we're sunk.

  Steve Gaynor

  Thinking, People, Worry

  "Why This Indie Game Studio Chose a Feminist Drama Over Guns and Zombies". Interview with Matt Connolly, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2013.

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• I just think it's a great world to tell stories in, to tell cool stories: money, sex, fame, and scandal. Those are great subject matters to work with.

  James Frey

  Sex, Thinking, Stories

  "James Frey’s Own Personal Jesus". Interview with Nate Freeman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2010.

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• Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for cadence and melody to see how the track's already been written, and to make sure that whatever flow or flows I decide to run with, or patterns or melodies that I decide to put into the song, that they're not already in there. Then I try to see if there's a different part of the subject matter that I can talk about.

  Bun B

  Running, Song, Rap

  Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

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• Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.

  Alan Lightman

  Writing, Views, Matter

  Interview with Alex Burack, www.literarytraveler.com. May 4, 2007.

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• I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Children, Guitar

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• The difference is in Hostel it's in the theatre - it's in public but it's in a private place. You have to actively make a choice to want to go see it. It's not being forced on anyone. Whereas 24 you can be flipping channels and it's right there in your living room. Anyone has access to that. But that just shows how mainstream it is and how people are seeing this stuff on YouTube. People are scared of it. This is a subject matter that everyone's talking about and everyone's thinking about, particularly in American culture.

  Eli Roth

  Thinking, Talking, Differences

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It cannot be too strongly asserted that the insistence on blind, unreasoning faith is due mainly to the maintenance of a subject-matter upon which there was no knowledge, namely the 'other world'; and that this basis was assumed because of early man's preoccupation with death. It is, unfortunately, quite possible to believe a thing which is contradicted by facts, especially if the facts are not generally known; but if the whole position on which we rested our religions had been visibly opposed by what we did know, even the unthinking masses would, in time, have noticed it.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Faith, Believe, Men

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2003). “His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers”, p.228, Rowman Altamira

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• The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Reality, Historical, Foundation

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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