1.
Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.
William Wilberforce
2.
Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.
James H. Cone
3.
E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream
thy flowing wounds supply,
redeeming love has been my theme,
and shall be till I die.
William Cowper
4.
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.
Eve Bunting
5.
Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.
John Huston
6.
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.
David Brin
8.
The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
Pat Metheny
9.
From Ennio [Morricone] I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He's never read a script of mine to compose the music, because many times he's composed the music before the script is ever written.
Sergio Leone
10.
There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels.
Thomas Ferguson
11.
My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.
Kurt Cobain
12.
We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.
Lupe Fiasco
13.
This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme
Charles Spurgeon
14.
The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.
Dannie Abse
15.
My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had
Kurt Cobain
17.
The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.
Karl Barth
18.
I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them.
Mamoru Hosoda
19.
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.
Henri Matisse
20.
Themes recur again and again in my work.
Eve Arnold
21.
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.
Max Beerbohm
22.
I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost.
Lana Del Rey
23.
The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.
Mason Cooley
24.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.
Quentin Tarantino
25.
Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
Agnes Martin
26.
Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie).
Sidney Lumet
27.
The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.
Paddy Chayefsky
28.
Im also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.
George Duke
29.
I worked a great deal then, as you can only do on a set theme, absolved from the obligation to find a new fact, a new subject every day.
Rico Lebrun
31.
'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
Scott Adams
32.
Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
Robert Genn
33.
I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.
David Guterson
37.
The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
Elvis Costello
39.
After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.
Tim Zuck
40.
Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
Brooke Shields
41.
For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.
Mark Webber
42.
As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
Roland Barthes
43.
Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
Maurice Sendak
44.
It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.
Richard Holbrooke
46.
You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.
Julia Spencer-Fleming
47.
They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
John O'Hara
48.
You have to live with your product, you have to know it through and through, you have to look at it, understand it, love it then, and only then, you can crystallize in one clear thought, one single theme, what must be conveyed about the product to the consumer.
William Bernbach
49.
Small minds can never handle great themes.
St. Jerome
50.
They say great themes make great novels
John O'Hara