Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis

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

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

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
John Berger

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

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Wilfred Owen

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

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

For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.
Jhumpa Lahiri

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
Lafcadio Hearn

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

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
Jessica Savitch

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.
Stanley Tucci

The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.
Conrad Hall