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«Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.»
Author: Edward Weston
| Keywords:
commonplace, excites, For any, photograph, searching, subject matter, unusual
«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.»
«Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.»
Author: Pope Paul VI
(Pope)
| About:
Physics,
Science
| Keywords:
manipulate, physics, sciences, studies, subject matter, technologies
«Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.»
Author: Robert Motherwell
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
European, mask, rejected, subject matter, The European, The Mask
«A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.»
Author: Wallace Stegner
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
besides, enlarges, enlarging, sorts, subject, subject matter, teacher, to enlarge
«All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music, because, in its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; and to it therefore, to the condition of its perf»
Author: Walter H. Pater
| About:
Art,
Music
| Keywords:
aspires, consummate, consummated, consummating, distinct, subject matter, the matter
«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.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Balance,
Dreams
| Keywords:
armchair, armchairs, calming, depressing, devoid, devoid of, fatigue, relaxation, serenity, soothing, subject matter, troubling
«If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter»
Author: Margaret Mead
| Keywords:
cloister, cloistered, cloisters, grasp, laboratories, laboratory, subject matter, the University, twelve, university, walls
«When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.»
Author: Robert Heinlein
| Keywords:
forbidden, for that matter, holy, motive, oppression, subjects, subject matter, undertakes
«Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -- and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
admittedly, as a matter of fact, boot, conditioned, experimental, for that matter, heterosexual, heterosexuals, homo, homosexual, react, sexually, subjects, subject matter
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