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“To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.”

Giving Humans Art Subjects Backgrounds Landscape Apples Clay Torso Cezanne Goya

Author:W. H. Auden

“If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.”

Ifs Strong Interesting Subjects Personality Backgrounds

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.”

Matter Subjects Painting Backgrounds Subject Matter Elusive Unclear

Book:William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition : an Exhibition

Source: William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition : an Exhibition

“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.”

Looks Might Alive Subjects Brother Critics Environmental Photograph Corners Backgrounds Painter Colour Reviews Aesthetic 1960s Aesthetics Ecological Eliot

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.”

Way Language Interest Subjects Backgrounds Poetry Is Makers Hobbies Utterance Fixation

Author:Thomas Lynch

“From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the benefit of a scientific background. And not only politicians. Those who work in industry, in commerce, in investment. Indeed, so important has it become that I believe we are right to make science a compulsory subject for all schoolchildren.”

World Believe Important Today I Believe Subjects Industry Politician Benefits Let Me Investment Backgrounds Bad Things Commerce Compulsory Today's World

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or might be saved by virtue of capital punishment are mere 'statistical people.' They are both nameless and faceless, and their deaths are far less likely to be considered in moral deliberations.”

People Humans Real Might Human Beings Moral Virtue Subjects Mere Saved Punishment Backgrounds Narrative Contrast Nameless Capital Punishment Deliberation Real Human Faceless

Author:Cass Sunstein