The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator.
Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.
Politicians are really getting desperate. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a final fundraising email to Democrats with the subject line, 'I'm begging. ' Because what better way to show you're a strong leader than acting like you're drunk and dialing your ex?
My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.
Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is always constant and unshifting. So it is with granaries: grain exposed to the sun's course soon loses its good quality, and provisions and fruit, unless stored in a place unexposed to the sun's course, do not keep long.
The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
Death is not my best subject.
Inspiration, it is well recognized, rarely comes unless an individual has immersed himself in the subject. He must have a rich background of knowledge and experience in it.
The real subject of every painting is light.
It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.
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.
Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the test in the way that the impersonal physical world can be subjected to experimental enquiry. Yet science and theology have this in common, that each can be, and should be defended as being investigations of what is, the search for increasing verisimilitude in our understanding of reality.
My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it,'
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.
No subject is unsuitable for comedy.
One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again.
We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.
