Subject Focus Quotes

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.

If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

There is a difference between film and digital. Because digital, you know, it's perfect and whatever. But with film, you get depth. You get subject.

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

The style depends on the subject.

What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.

There are so many opportunities to learn things online, like between Coursera and Khan Academy and Duolingo. There are these awesome websites that are kind of these little personal Aristotles. There are times when I'm preparing for a role of some kind, and then I'll focus on a certain subject.

You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.