We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.
The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.
No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me.
But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.
With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.
She was a sleuth and sleuths had to follow rules. ‘Get to the point; don’t allow the subject to digress’ was one of them
Really, for all the poetry in the world on the subject, when you get right down to it, it's mostly just boom! penis vagina.
That's right, you get him, Mary. Don't let him change the subject!
Biologists have an adolescent fascination with sex. Like teenagers they are embarrassed by the subject because of their ignorance.
The logic of thought is derivative of the laws of nature. Laws of nature is subject to the idea that creates nature.
I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?
One kind of walking which I do not recall seeing mentioned anywhere in the literature of the subject is imaginary walking.
In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
