Subject Quotes

Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible.

In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

I don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It’s difficult to put into words.

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.