Subject Quotes

“All ideology hails or interpellates concrete individuals as concrete subjects.”

“I've always been drawn to people who are slightly outside the mainstream.”

“A good portrait is one that says something about the person. We don't want to know about the photographer.”

“For me the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.”

“The human figure is the only fit subject for art.”

“It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it.”

“It is not the subject which is 'great' or 'small' but the artist.”

“The subject matter has to be startling and tragic and mundane.”

“I don't believe in the photographer as hero. I believe in the subject as hero.”

“For me, the subject of a picture is always an emotional one.”

“The painting of a flag is always about a flag, but it is no more about a flag than it is about a brushstroke or about a color or about the physicality of the paint.”

“I like to write about things that are extreme.”

“Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the photographer's real secret.”

“I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women.”

“There is no subject; there are only popular images, which are the subjects of our time.”

“I've said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is stay close to home.”

“I'm always looking for something that is a little bit strange or different. I am interested in what is not normal.”

“I don't think you can be a great photographer if you're not passionate about your subject.”

“I like to paint old-timey things, things that I know about.”

“The self, terrible and constant, is for me the subject matter of painting.”