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“If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.”

Ifs World Feels Writing Matter Choices Process My Own Subjects Amount These Days Writing Process Chaotic Subject Matter

Author:Eddie Vedder

“We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter. There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We're using those things – but we're not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.”

“Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.”

Mean Art Different Matter Age Today Culture Interest Modern Subjects Expression Source Aim Technique Contemporary Painter Chinese Renaissance Subject Matter Modern Art

Author:Jackson Pollock

“The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast.”

Persons Matter Philosophy Subjects Devil Philosopher Mood Shirts Subject Matter Essayists Pundits Jester Confidant Devil's Advocate

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that you voluntarily set for yourself, and which you may change or abandon whenever you choose - without explanation to anyone.”

Way Should May Matter Choices Subjects Standards Explanation Abandon You Choose Subject Matter Scruples

Author:Richard Schmid

“The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain kind of artist manqu on the brink of discovering that life is a more difficult business than he ever had reason to expect. . . . The subject matter is 'relatable,' as my students like to say. Better still, though, is what you can learn about the craft of writing from this marvelous book. . . . Indeed, if you're looking for a funny, nonportentous Hemingway, then the early Powell is your man.”

“The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and texture, motion and mood, everything except composition.”

Matter Light Form Space Subjects Photographer Patterns Mood Painter Shade Composition Texture Subject Matter

Author:Andreas Feininger

“I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.”

Matter Stories Wanted Lines Dark Subjects Reader Complexes Colour Simplest Subject Matter

Author:Mark Millar

“I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked and it's paralyzing.”

People Thinking May Sometimes Matter Pay Attention Talking Too Much Subjects Sparks Not Afraid Controversy Subject Matter

Author:Jada Pinkett Smith

“The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.”

Looks Matter Stories Stuff Records Subjects Happenings Subject Matter Lasers Fiasco

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.”

Matter Half Silence Subjects Horse Customers Bars Bored Serving Denied Subject Matter

Author:Bernadette Devlin

“Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.”

Writing Matter Subjects Style Source Composer Subject Matter Living On

Book:A Virgil Thomson reader

Source: A Virgil Thomson reader

“I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.”

Source: Magical means: Milton Avery and watercolor

“I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.”

Matter Done Reading Process Fiction Subjects Mom Research My Mom Despite Enjoyed Non Fiction Subject Matter Schizophrenic

Author:Chester Brown

“Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.”

Humans Matter Action Subjects Economics Fundamentals Uncertain Subject Matter Human Actions

Author:Julian Baggini

“Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.”

Way Writing Trying Book Matter Bigs Subjects Style Best Way Familiar Block Genre Subject Matter Looming

Author:Jeffery Deaver

“The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.”

Matter Reality Subjects Relation Foundation Historical Seeking Subject Matter Systematic

Book:Introduction to the Human Sciences

Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences

“The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.”

Thinking Trying Matter Problem Might Kids Young Simple Deals Emotion Subjects Emotional Adults Tools Complicated Simple Life Subject Matter Emotional Life

Author:Sherman Alexie

“And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.”

Littles Country Matter Song Fans Subjects Cautious Subject Matter

Author:Dierks Bentley

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