Subjects Quotes - Page 11

• I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough. And so, for a long time, that kept me from writing about it. But once I began, I realized it was just as interesting as anywhere else.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Long, Interesting

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• It's very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning out of the page.

  Terry Pratchett

  Research, Pages, Stuff

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?

  Sarada Devi

  Men, People, Arguing

  Sarada Devi (1963). “At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi”

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• I think that the gifts of the spirit are always subject to the control of the person who's exercising them. You're not forced in to doing it. Love never forces. And therefore 'the spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet' is another way it is put. You don't suddenly find yourself taken over by a spirit and find yourself speaking tongues. You're in control, but it's a gift. You can stop and start as you please, but it's a way of communicating with God.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Taken, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Grateful, Reality, Law

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.495, A&C Black

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• Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.

  Brian Tracy

  Ignorance

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• My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.

  Prince Philip

  School, Unnecessary, Favourite

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• The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.

  Willem de Kooning

  Artist, Ideas, Space

  Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.13, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

  David Ricardo

  Powerful, Discovery, Doubt

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.11

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• I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Power, Mouths, Prestige

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sell much, no matter what the style or subject.

  Jack White

  Art, Emotional, Impact

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• By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, Heart, Swings

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• And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city or a nation, and rule it according to his or their private interest; which, because the laws in such cases are made according to the interest of a man, or of some few families, may be said to be the empire of men, and not of laws.

  James Harrington

  Art, Men, Law

  James Harrington, J. G. A. Pocock (1992). “Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Society, Leisure, Wealth

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.115

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• The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Character, Choices, Influence

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• Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result merely from a similarity of method.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Quality, Copying, Common

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• While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Giving, Inspire, Style

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• Subject has the variety of life.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Variety

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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 wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Race, People, Wish

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• I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.

  Robert Genn

  Opportunity, Light, Metaphor

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• Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.

  Robert Genn

  Imagination, Bears, Theme

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• When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.

  Robert Genn

  Stand Alone, Edges

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• Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.

  Richard Schmid

  Powerful, Obvious Things, Firsts

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