A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.
There are many things I still don't know or don't do well in comic books. It's more a question of having the will to do something creative on a subject that seems interesting. Then just giving it a bloody good bash - that's the main thing.
Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.
People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to see things that they cannot see with a casual glance.
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.
The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.
I scowled defensively. "My conversations don't usually include the subject of erections. " "Too bad," he said. "All the best conversations do.
Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.
Often the energy of a piece is more exciting to me than the subject.
In my role of agent for Miss Hathaway, I would like to say that she does not answer questions relating to this subject.
All the subject matter I talk about isn't new; all comics talk about the same things. But it's how you talk about them or present them or what you look like up there that makes the difference between an okay comic and a great one.
It is longstanding U. S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer.
There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.
Last year I gave several lectures on "Intelligence and Musicality among Animals". . . Today I am going to speak to you about "Intelligence and Musicality among Critics". . . The subject is much the same, with some modifications, of course.
Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking "Is what I do worth while?" and "Am I the right person to do it?" will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. This is not too difficult: it is harder not to make his subject and himself ridiculous by shutting his eyes too tightly.
Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.