“The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.” ArtRealCharacterArtistAliveSubjectsStressStriveCaricaturesPortraitureReal Artists Author:William Dobell
“It's guilty of the very thing that makes kids hate history as a subject when it's taught badly: The Da Vinci Code makes the past feel like a dull, grainy, faraway thing, instead of something vibrant and alive.” FeelsKidsPastHateAliveSubjectsTaughtGuiltyCodeDullDa Vinci Code Author:Stephanie Zacharek
“A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more than you do about the subject. You have to really have your research together - and of course no one can know everything about a topic.” PeopleKnowsBookFactsTogetherCoursesAliveSubjectsResearchHarderContemporaryFakeTopics Author:Steven Pressfield
“Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.” FeelsShouldBookMatterUseLife IsLiteratureNamesTermLinesAliveSeaSubjectsParticularTastePaperLowsFlowWarmSmellBeerImpulseBetrayTypicalIrrelevantAccustomedMundaneGrandeurPortOnionsAudenQuinceTerm Life Book:Brown: The Last Discovery of America Source: Brown: The Last Discovery of America
“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every corner is alive,' and this suggests what an ecological aesthetic might look like.” LooksMightAliveSubjectsBrotherCriticsEnvironmentalPhotographCornersBackgroundsPainterColourReviewsAesthetic1960sAestheticsEcologicalEliot Author:Rebecca Solnit
“In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.” YearsImportantMatterProcessInterestSupportLearningPiecesAliveChildhoodMiddleSubjectsParticularSkillsFindingsTechniqueRelatedGlowingSubject Matter Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.” WorldWayTryingKindMatterAliveSubjectsThis WorldPhotographyExtraordinarySubject Matter Author:Keith Carter