Subject Quotes

I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.

I just don’t think one person has that much to contribute to any subject

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist’s obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.

Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

Wisdom involves our accumulated knowledge about a subject but also a reverence for life.

The situation that women were in, at the time, was something that Dumas doesn’t really go into, but it’s a great subject to look at.

Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.