Subject Analysis Quotes

To properly investigate a subject, we must investigate a subject's stuff.

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.

I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.

Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about

Even if I wrote a song about math or animals or whatever, there would still be the question, 'Why did you write about that? And what does it say about you?'

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.

I think the biggest influence on my stand-up would be Chris Rock, in that I love that Chris is basically an essayist, in that he'll take a subject and just try and attack it from as many different angles as he can.

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.

I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.