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“What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.”

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.”

Given Interest Subjects Design Plenty Sufficient Construction Suitable

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.”

Source: Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

“In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.”

“Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subject matter that reflects the sophistication and beauty I find in nature - all presented from a unique point of view - can only be successfully achieved with a sound command of the painter's craft... history will determine how successful I have been.”

“None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.”

Men Mind Subjects Design Exercise Fame Projects Disappointment Pursuit Obstruction

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes

“The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.”

Way Reason Light Government Lying Passion Subjects Design Prejudice Dues Consideration Remove Rhetoric

Book:A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

“I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.”

Firsts I Can Remember Born Subjects Design Aircraft Sketching

Author:Norman Foster

“And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.”

Community Liberty Subjects Design Lays Property Foolish Supreme Saving Wicked Legislators Supreme Power

Book:The Second Treatise on Civil Government

Source: The Second Treatise on Civil Government

“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

“We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject. - How beautiful are the retired flowers! how would they lose their beauty were they to throng into the highway crying out, "admire me I am a violet! dote upon me I am a primrose!"”

Ifs Should Doe Soul Hands Seems Beautiful Hate Loses Subjects Cry Design Flower Agree Admire Pockets Violet Highways Retired

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of my photography - give a stage to things that wouldn't normally receive that stage.”

Giving Audience Subjects Stage Design Photography Seductive

Author:Taryn Simon