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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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• 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 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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• The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain kind of artist manqu on the brink of discovering that life is a more difficult business than he ever had reason to expect. . . . The subject matter is 'relatable,' as my students like to say. Better still, though, is what you can learn about the craft of writing from this marvelous book. . . . Indeed, if you're looking for a funny, nonportentous Hemingway, then the early Powell is your man.

  Blake Bailey

  Book, Writing, Men

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• I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Groups, Matter, Draws

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• There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.

  Peter Greenaway

  Sex, Two, Western Culture

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Song: Heloise and Abelard by Elizabeth Devlin. Beyond the a propros subject matter, this lady can really play the Autoharp. This song sounds like something you'd find on a gramophone record.

  Lauren Groff

  Song, Play, Sound

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• If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.

  Eddie Vedder

  Writing, Choices, World

  "Q&A: Penn, Vedder go where the 'Wild' things are". Interview with Jonathan Cohen, www.reuters.com. October 27, 2007.

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• The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and texture, motion and mood, everything except composition.

  Andreas Feininger

  Light, Space, Texture

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• It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, People, Matter

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• Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

  Robert Kirkman

  Technology, Perfection, Different

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• I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

  Midge Ure

  Writing, Atmosphere, Musical

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• I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.

  Tom Wesselmann

  People, Care, Matter

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• What are your goals? Where are you going? Why are you here? What are you? Scientology has answers to these questions, good answers that are true, answers that work for you. For the subject matter of Scientology is you.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Goal, Answers, Matter

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.3, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.

  Nicole Kidman

  Matter, Film, Extremes

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Sep 08, 2016

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• If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Everyday, Matter, Complaining

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.12, New World Library

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• I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henrys old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.

  Rick Wakeman

  Book, Home, Historical

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• I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

  Don Henley

  Writing, Men, Focus

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

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

  John Dewey

  Education, Mean, Science

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.

  Michael Berryman

  Art, Honesty, Nice

  Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.

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