Subjects Quotes - Page 27

• When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them

  John Rawls

  Desire, Principles, Structure

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

  Jose Saramago

  Dream, Impossible, Illusion

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• I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.

  Paul Emsley

  Fall, Light, Shadow

  "Kate portrait: First painting gets mixed reviews". www.bbc.com. January 11, 2013.

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• I worked a great deal then, as you can only do on a set theme, absolved from the obligation to find a new fact, a new subject every day.

  Rico Lebrun

  Facts, Theme, Obligation

  University of Southern California, Rico Lebrun (1961). “Rico Lebrun: Paintings and Drawings 1946-1961”

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• I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.

  Abe Ajay

  Color, Looks, Use

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• No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.

  Scott Kahn

  Skills, Choices, Excellence

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• Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? What is the artist telling us about his or her feelings about the subject? What response do I get from the message of the artist? Do I know the artist better because of the painting?

  Gerald Brommer

  Artist, Ideas, Personality

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• I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.

  Georges Vantongerloo

  Beautiful, Art, Flower

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• It is most difficult to acquire the, how shall I say? the 'depth' of a subject in composition in silhouette.

  Ugo Mochi

  Depth, Silhouettes, Difficult

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• I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.

  John Newbery

  Trying, Technique, Tangier

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• Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and can enhance subject, theme, and style. Every photograph you take involves you in some compositional decision, even if this is simply where to set up the camera or when to press the button.

  Michael Langford

  Photography, Decision, Style

  Michael Langford (2000). “Basic Photography”, p.7, Taylor & Francis

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• Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive us of half of our abilities. This is one of the main school problems. That teacher understands it, who can teach students to study without fear of the teacher, without fear of classmates, and, the most important, without fear of a subject.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Teacher, School, People

  "The Last Book" by Simon Soloveychik, (Ch. 20), 1999.

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• We're subject to the same forces of capitalism that have built the entire American economy. Strong returns induce more capital flow, which creates more competitors, and you have to evolve and get better, or you die.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Strong, Get Better, Flow

  "Citadel Boss Won't Be Hedging On Day Job". Chicago Tribune, March 2006.

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• The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its appropriate mathematics. In every form of material manifestation, there is a corresponding form of human thought, so that the human mind is as wide in its range of thought as the physical universe in which it thinks.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Thinking, Mind, Enquiry

  "Linear Associative Algebra" by Benjamin Peirce, (§ 2), 1882.

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• The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Endurance, Humans

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• It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and the world is bound to be purified.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Growth, World, Objectives

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.28, Advaita Ashrama

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• It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.

  Herman Melville

  Wisdom, Infinite, Hard

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.253, Northwestern University Press

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• Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.

  Al Alvarez

  Art, Imagination, Police

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Coffee has assumed a social meaning that goes far beyond the simple black brew in the cup. The worldwide coffee culture is more than a culture - it is a cult. There are usenet newsgroups on the subject, along with innumerable sites on the World Wide Web, and Starbucks outlets populate every street corner, vying for space with other coffeehouses and chains. And after all is said and done, it's just the pit of a berry from an Ethiopian shrub.

  Mark Pendergrast

  Coffee, Simple, Space

  "Quite a jolt for a simple berry" by Mark Pendergrast, www.cnn.com. August 4, 1999.

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• The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values.

  Leo Strauss

  Simple, Men, Issues

  Leo Strauss (1959). “What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies”, p.23, University of Chicago Press

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• I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold: Come they from cottage or come they from hall, Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all! Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin I gather them in, I gather them in!

  Benjamin

  Kings, Thrones, Cottages

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• In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to humanity at any given historical moment, ... the fathers of pragmatism made the satisfaction of the subject the criterion of truth. For such a doctrine there is no possibility of rejecting or even criticizing any species of belief that is enjoyed by its adherents.

  Max Horkheimer

  Father, Opposites, Ideas

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.35, A&C Black

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• The initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in commercial programming, I continue to believe that its most important use remains to be exploited: as a simple, precise, executable notation for the teaching of a wide range of subjects.

  Kenneth E. Iverson

  Believe, Teaching, Writing

  "A Personal View of APL". IBM Systems Journal, 30 (4), 1991.

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• There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.

  Lee Hsien Loong

  Sensitive, Policy, Taboo

  The Straits Times, January 17, 2000.

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• It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.

  Derek Mahon

  Community, Solitude, Weirdness

  "Derek Mahon, The Art of Poetry No. 82". Interview with Eamonn Grennan, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2000.

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