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“An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.”

“Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.”

Ifs Way Doe Eye Choices Understanding Failing Subjects Mankind Creation Painting Poet Ears Satisfaction Wide Painter

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.”

Character Choices Influence Subjects Method Representation

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.”

Ifs Book Matter Moving Artist Choices Middle Subjects Style Calling Function Blue Sentences Commit Subject Matter One Direction

Book:Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals

Source: Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals

“No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.”

Matter Choices Subjects Amount Skills Excellence Depth Substitutes Subject Matter

Author:Scott Kahn

“Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?”

“Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.”

Important Choices Stuff Known History Subjects Humour Picks Lifetime Historian Happy Life Speculation Exotic Once Upon A Time Specialists Recommendations Important Choices

Author:A. A. Gill

“I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.”

Writing Choices Found Poor Subjects Autobiography Poor Choices

Book:Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman

Source: Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman

“The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is already half won. Of a few writers it may be said that they are popular in despite of their subjects--but of a great many more it may be observed that they are popular because of them.”

May Said Choices Literature Half Subjects Position Battle Determined Despite Great Men Selection

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.”

People World Art Matter Choices Fiction Audience Subjects Thick Subject Matter Retaining Thick Of It

Book:Living by Fiction

Source: Living by Fiction

“Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.”

Thinking Men Faith Choices Opinion Subjects Obstacles Surface Fearful

Book:Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: In Two Volumes

Source: Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: In Two Volumes

“Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?”

“There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.”

“Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.”

May Choices Subjects Pedantry Ostentation

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.”

Source: The Renaissance

“Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our morally bewildered time novelists have often been timid about plot.”

Matter Choices Fiction Subjects Morality Narrative Novelists Plot Subject Matter Bewildered

Book:Outlander

Source: Outlander

“The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.”

Men Choices Marriage Wife Subjects Husband Men And Women Queens Patriarchy Humiliate Elevating

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from success to success and is still quoted--and misquoted--by thousands of people who have never read him. Both men were expatriates by choice, but Eliot renounced his American citizenship and did his best to become assimilated with his fellow British subjects, while Pound always remained an American in exile.”

“It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.”

Two Different Choices Subjects Photographer Obsessed Technicalities

Author:Mario Testino

“Sound continues to be a mystery to me, in that one could create infinite songs focusing on the same subject, but depending on the melody, instrument choice, minor or major key, time signature, etc., each song could elicit an entirely different response.”

Different Song Choices Sound Mystery Subjects Keys Majors Infinite Instruments Response Etc Melody Minors Signatures

Author:Josh Garrels

“In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.”

Ifs Giving Choices Individual Perfect Results Audience Subjects Listening Involved Periods Drama Treatment Instruction Sympathetic Freedom Of Choice Great Results

Author:George P. Baker

“The difference is in Hostel it's in the theatre - it's in public but it's in a private place. You have to actively make a choice to want to go see it. It's not being forced on anyone. Whereas 24 you can be flipping channels and it's right there in your living room. Anyone has access to that. But that just shows how mainstream it is and how people are seeing this stuff on YouTube. People are scared of it. This is a subject matter that everyone's talking about and everyone's thinking about, particularly in American culture.”

People Thinking Want Matter Shows Choices Culture Stuff Differences Rooms Talking Seeing Subjects Scared Theatre Access Mainstream American Culture Youtube Subject Matter Living Room

Author:Eli Roth

“You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.”

World Writing Firsts Littles Character Choices Actors Given Subjects Design Directors Projects Creating Property Productions Studios Producers Costumes Production Design

Author:Rainn Wilson

“Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.”

Life Is Choices Subjects Effects Experiments Observers Making Choices

Book:Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great

Source: Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great

“It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a week. It is the democratic art, i.e. technical skill is practically eliminated - the more foolproof cameras become with focusing and exposure gadgets the better - and artistic quality depends only on choice of subject.”

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