In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.
We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.
I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.
Pytheos made a mistake by not observing that the arts are each composed of two things, the actual work and the theory of it. One of these, the doing of the work, is proper to men trained in the individual subject, while the other the theory is common to all scholars.
Valerie Martin was my mentor in college and she liked fiction that said something. That made it essential to have something to say. This seems obvious, but it's not. And she's taken on a wide range of subject matter: each book poses new challenges, and that's something I think about when I'm embarking on a project.
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.
. . . I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. — Let each man hope & believe what he can. —
I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?
The Internet gives you access to a lot of material, and it's fun to sit and read. I go to something like Wikipedia and look at different topics. . . I find the subject fascinating. I like to read about concepts and mathematicians.
If wearing this rag will in any way speed the process of gathering my furture soldiers, then I will waer it. But if it doesn't. . . " Vollrath bowed. "I will subject myself to your temper. " You'll have no choice.
Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.
We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
Inspiration, it is well recognized, rarely comes unless an individual has immersed himself in the subject. He must have a rich background of knowledge and experience in it.
As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.