“If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a pair of shoes, without artistic preoccupation, you will not always find you do well. But the days you least expect it, you will find a subject which holds its own with the work of those who have gone before.” IfsWantWellsGoneSubjectsShoesPlanningArtisticPairsPreoccupationPair Of Shoes Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'” MenMatterGoneSubjectsSeriousHarderHistoricalQueensGrandmotherShyMy Grandmother Author:Prince William
“The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.” ArtCareersGoneSubjectsPaintingHonorPhotographyTraditionAimRemainsEverydayPortraitsCordelia Book:On photography Source: On photography
“There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.” IfsDifferentMatterHardVoicePayGoneSubjectsTasteApproachExcitingGatesRestrictionSubject MatterAdmissionGatekeepersDifferent Voices Author:Bill Watterson
“When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us.” GivingTryingHumansLongAbleGrowsHuman BeingsAudienceGoneSubjectsSeriousCreditSerious Subjects Author:Prince
“Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But sometimes the dance has gone well and my subject and I have moved together as if with shared purpose.” IfsWorldWellsKindSometimesTogetherPurposeGoneFeetSubjectsPhotographyMovedPhotographFallen Author:Keith Carter
“I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.” ThinkingWayLooksBookMatterFictionGoneSubjectsPhotographMy WayPackagesSelectSubject Matter Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“Writing about someone well known removes that obligation of defending it as a subject, but it also means that some of the surprise and freshness is already gone. It's so different - in some ways much harder for me.” WayWritingWellsMeanDifferentKnownGoneSubjectsHarderSurpriseObligationRemoveWell KnownFreshnessAlready Gone Author:Susan Orlean