The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.
I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.
Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do books that are all on the same subject. That is just because the pictures have piled up on that subject. Finally I realize that I am really interested in it. The pictures make me realize that I am interested in something.
Thoughts are not subject to duty.
I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.
Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.
What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse
There are many things I still don't know or don't do well in comic books. It's more a question of having the will to do something creative on a subject that seems interesting. Then just giving it a bloody good bash - that's the main thing.
Everybody is afraid to touch the topic of religion, especially with the extreme muslims. It's such a touchy subject. You can attack any other religion and nothing bad will come about.
Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.
Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.
In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. . . This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style. ' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity. ' What else is the articulation of perception?
Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.
The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.
The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.
Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.
Women have a faith in themselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f - ing strong. Both of those characters are criticized for being weak, for being subject to a man, but I think that that's a really bold and natural thing that we all want.