“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.” IfsShouldFirstsHas BeensEndsStoriesUsedLyingMy OwnWrittenSubjectsWallGunConcernedCrossesChaptersHanging On Author:Anton Chekhov
“There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.” ThinkingWantHandsReadingInterestWatchesSubjectsFashionFieldsWallSticksSillyYour FavoriteFavorite SubjectAdventuring Author:Walt Disney
“Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall Street. Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out just by sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A lot of investors sit around and debate whether a stock is going up, as if the financial muse will give them the answer, instead of checking the company.” IfsThinkingGivingUsedAnswersCompanyStreetsSubjectsFiguresTaughtWallSittingLogicHorseFinancialDebateTeethGreekPeculiarInvestorsMuse Book:One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In
“I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.” TryingSubjectsMovementWallModelsStructureConstantRelyCompositionAngleLimbs Author:Philip Pearlstein
“The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.” PeopleWorldIdeasDifferentWantedCertainSubjectsWallTypeMonasteriesDifferent Ideas Author:Frederick Lenz
“The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing.” GivingMatterArtistTurnsSecretSubjectsWallGiving UpTreatsBangsSubject MatterVanishing Author:Clive James
“...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting or in form or in composition or in subject matter, but more ordinary, that's the challenge.” ThinkingMatterFormChallengesRoomsSubjectsWallFindingsOrdinaryDramaticCompositionLightingSubject MatterOff The Wall Author:Larry Sultan