“This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.” LittlesCasesTreeSubjectsTalentBarking Up The Wrong Tree Author:David Salle
“Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf to a tree / Nor the wind to the atmosphere / I know where I am meant to be / And I can't be satisfied here” KnowsI CanMatterHomeWaterTreeSubjectsWindRainSellsSatisfiedAtmosphereMeant To BeLeafsGoing Home Author:Lemn Sissay
“When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot.” WayHouseWalksTreeSubjectsRocksPaintingConceptsLandscapeVisualsDesirableSnapshots Author:John French Sloan
“The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was] not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.” ArtMatterLightHouseExistenceTreeSubjectsOughtMountainPaintPhilosopherAbstractTowersAbstractionSubject MatterSpotlight Author:Willem de Kooning
“For years I study. I look long at olive trees, all gray and silver, and watch the sunlight. Ah, yes, I am ver' lazy, but I see after I look long that it is perspective that give it this quality. Perspective, and absolute faith to the subject.” GivingYearsLooksLongQualityWatchesStudyTreeSubjectsPerspectiveAbsolutesLazySilverGraySunlightOlivesOlive Trees Author:Ugo Mochi
“Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in the magnificent temple of Ipsambul in Nubia. He says that a very exact representation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is to be seen in that cave, and that the serpent climbing round the tree is especially delineated, and the whole subject of the tempting of our first parents most accurately exhibited.” FirstsWholeFallParentTreeAtheismSubjectsGardenIntelligentRoundsInstanceTemplesClimbingAdamMagnificentRepresentationTravelerCavesEdenSerpentTemptingAdam And EveGarden Of Eden Author:Godfrey Higgins
“I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.” KnowsWorldHateAnimalMeditationTreeSubjectsI HateBanterSmall Talk Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.” MenBodySpiritTreeSubjectsDelightNutsWormsDrunkennessIvyOld Trees Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works