Subject Quotes

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

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

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time.

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.