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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. Henri Matisse

Art, Good, Mind, Balance, Influence

The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter. Zoe Sugg

Joy, Silly, You, Feel, Create, Content

We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that's wrong and you've got to do something about it, especially if you're in a position of power, it won't change. David Oyelowo

Change, Power, You, Racial, Bias, Matter

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption. Jim Sturgess

Love, Failure, Love Is, Powerful, Fate

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer. Gordon Parks

Important, Matter, Photographer, More

I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love. Orhan Pamuk

Love, Myself, Job, City, Hidden, Explore

I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way. Roy Lichtenstein

Art, Society, World, Better, Teach, Try

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. Jackson Pollock

Work, Today, Matter, Go, Outside, Source

For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale with much experience in Eastern Europe, she writes with great sureness of touch, weaving personal recollections with intellectual commentary and ideas with emotions, including her own. Norman Davies

Great, Experience, Ideas, People, She

Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.' David Chase

Love, True Love, Light, Art, Death, Rock

The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey. Nas

Respect, Mistakes, Moments, Curious, You

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. Edward Weston

Me, Searching, Matter, Will, Reason

When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public. Francis Ford Coppola

Age, You, Risk, Dive, Matter, Without

I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter. Mika

Good, Think, Song, You, Down, Difficult

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. James Mark Baldwin

History, Self, Meaning, Development

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself. LeRoy Neiman

Life, Good, Reality, Good Life, Me, Made

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting. Jerry Saltz

Opinions, Nobody, Matter, Bacon, Sexist

I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite. Carol Burnett

Family, Happy, Law, Fun, Doing, Feel

Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves. Simon Sinek

Purpose, Problem, Matter, Pursue, Cause

Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow. Simon Sinek

Good, Doing, Teach, Others, Matter

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. Leonard Cohen

Life, Man, Me, Young Man, Understand

All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself. Max Weber

Age, Research, Problems, End, Data, Will

I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy, and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked, and it's paralyzing. Jada Pinkett Smith

Think, People, Spark, Attention, Talking

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good. Andy Warhol

Work, Stars, Death, Good, People, Rest

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare! Cynthia Ozick

Space, Small, Look, Matter, Profound

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries. David Bowie

Time, Integrity, Loyalty, People, Me

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