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“The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.”

Should Firsts May Artist Subjects Products Importance Finished Significance Aesthetic

Author:John French Sloan

“My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject.”

Knows Firsts Two Ideas Problem Together Order Subjects Painting Finished Familiar Recognition Evoke Finished Work

Author:Keith Crown

“Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.”

Life Is Fall Process Subjects Achievement Finished This Life Slips Precarious

Book:Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Collection

Source: Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Collection

“As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. We cannot believe that it is finished, that we are 'finished,' even though we may say so; we expect another chapter, another installment, tomorrow or next week.”

Believe May Stories Next Hours Week Subjects Hero Tomorrow Finished Suspense Chapters Day To Day Next Week

Book:The humanist in the bathtub

Source: The humanist in the bathtub

“In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in.”

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and you think the poem is finished, the poem says, "You're not finished with me yet," and you have to go back and revise, and you may have another poem altogether. It has its own life to live.”

Thinking May Sometimes Form Subjects Finished Rhythm Rhyme

Author:Maya Angelou