Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand.
Queen Mary

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?
Franz Schubert

Death is not my best subject.
Judd Nelson

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
Alberto Giacometti

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
Andrea Dworkin

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Mark Victor Hansen

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
Mark Rothko

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
Doug Coupland

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
Howard Hodgkin

It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
Iris Chang

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.
Fredrik Bajer

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
Pierre Corneille

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
Lafcadio Hearn

Don't have a favorite subject, I think I want to carry on doing this because I really enjoy it.
Rupert Grint

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
Kenneth Noland

I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.
Christopher Meloni