Quotes About Expression

We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.

I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work.

That's what storytelling is. It's excising the demons and taking a look at the hard subjects.

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.

I look for subjects who have stories to tell - who are looking to tell something.

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

I really wanted to feel strong, I wanted my subjects to feel strong, but I didn't know how to do that. It's really hard for, I guess, every woman to not internalize misogyny. I just learned as I went on how to best capture my subjects without objectifying them.

Film-makers are greedy people - we want good stories and good subjects.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.

There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

I've always believed that you write to discover what you think. On most subjects, if I'm asked what do I think about them, I'd say I don't know, I'll have to write them down.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

I get passionate about certain subjects, and then I'll write a whole play around it.