Jamais je ne m'assujettis aux heures: les heures sont faites pour l'homme, et non l'homme pour les heures. I never subject myself to hours: hours are made for men; men are not made for hours.

-Rabelais, Fran c° ois
  Gargantua, bk.1, ch.41.

   The subject is to the painter what the rails are to a locomotive. He cannot do without it.

-Rivera, Diego
  CreativeArt.

Nothing is so poor and melancholy as an art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

-Sandys, George
Quoted inJohn Gassner and SidneyThomas (eds) The Nature of Art (1964).

   Was man scheint, Hat jedermann zum Richter; was man ist, hat keine. What we appear to be is subject to the judgement Of all mankind, and what we truly are, of no one.

-Schiller, Friedrich
  Maria Stuart, act 2, sc.5.

The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart's blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  An Address to the Irish People.

The Old Testament makes woman a mere after-thought in creation; the author of evil; cursed in her maternity; a subject in marriage; and all female life, animal and human, unclean.

-Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady
  TheWoman's Bible, pt.2, preface.

A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.

-Thomson,Virgil
  Of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Modern Music.

Math was my worst subject because I could never persuade the teacher that my answers were meant ironically.

-Trillin, Calvin Marshall
  In the NewYorkTimes,7 Oct. US literary  critic whose works,  such  as The Liberal  Imagination (1950)  and  Beyond  Culture  (1965),  gained him  a  reputation for scholarly  and  astute  social  comment.  He  also  wrote  a  novel, The Middle of  theJourney (1947).

   The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
The Picture of Dorian Gray, preface.