#subject

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#beauty #become #change #continues #historical

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#election #going #i #just #primary

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#every #every time #everybody #eye #hard

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#almost #books #default #discipline #especially

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing. ↗

— Paul Getty

#i #relish #subject #wealth

My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#convey #effort #elevation #give #human

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block. ↗

— John Tenniel

#begin #block #carefully #day #down

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries. ↗

— Paul Harris

#imaginary #man #priestly #primitive #real

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#fine #good #nothing #speculation #subject

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. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#art #balance #calming #depressing #devoid