My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Theology is a subject without an object
Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in my own work. Indeed, I feel the simplest approach can often be most effective. A subject placed squarely in the center of the frame, if attention is not distracted from it by fussy surroundings, has a simple dignity which makes it all the more impressive.
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law. . . That portion of the sovereignty, to which each individual is entitled, can never be too highly prized. It is that for which we have fought and bled.
We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.
You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it. . . Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.
The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.
Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.
Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.
Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.
How many writers are there. . . who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.
Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and its defects remedied very soon.
As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life. . . Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities.
I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.