Top 1200 Subject Matter Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.

Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.

It's very hard to deal with true subject matter, especially when you're writing about such weighty issues.

It always surprises me how much my followers appreciate how candid my photos are - they may not have a particularly unique subject, but it's more about the light you shed on the subject than the subject itself.

I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.

I always felt the 'X-Men,' in a subtle way, often touched upon the subject of racism and inequality, and I believe that subject has come up in other titles, too. But we would never pound hard on the subject, which must be handled with care and intelligence.

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

That is the job of a comedian: To take unpleasant subject matter and forcibly, with his hands, wring the funny out of it.

I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.

In the past, I think my films that focused on African subjects struggled in the marketplace because of their subject matter.

As I grew up I became increasingly interested in philosophy, or which [his family] profoundly disapproved. Everytime the subject came up they repeated with unfailing regularity, "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." After some fifty or sixty repititions, this remark ceased to amuse me.

Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

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

The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, if you look at its website, it basically deals with commercial disputes, it's not allowed to deal with matters involving children, it's not allowed to deal with criminal matters, it's subject to judicial review, it's subject to the Human Rights Act, it's subject to the Children's Act, and it's completely proper and right that it should be subject to all those things.

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

Most of my subject matter was all kind of, like, party stuff, jewelry and cars. It was really just, you know, shallow.

I was raised in Holland, where race and homosexuality are not a subject matter but rather a part of life.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.

I make my living talking about serious subject matter, but I'm a weirdo.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness.

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

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

The questions about my father are inevitable, regardless of the characters I create or the subject matter.

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.

As an artist, I feel a certain responsibility to write about difficult subject matter.

Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.

No one sets out to write escapism as a film's subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick.

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

Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

State of the Culture' is more mature content. We want to go as deep as we can on whatever the subject matter is, we're not there to joke.

At a certain career level, it's no longer about whether you are the smartest subject-matter expert in the room.

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

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.

Dream Theater music, there's a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums they come from.

LOVE your taste in subject matter... perfect summer reading!

The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.

In the case of 'The Lovely Bones,' I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare.

I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny.

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.

The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.

I think Gwen, in her lyrics, always touches on personal subject matter.

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.