Composition Quotes
Composition Quote of the day
I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always strive to give the same feeling, while carrying it on further.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.
Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.
Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous.
It is most difficult to acquire the, how shall I say? the 'depth' of a subject in composition in silhouette.
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.
The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting.
By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition
Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think.
Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this.
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.
Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.
The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.
There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.
When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out.
I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.
Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.
In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.
One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.
The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.
There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.
When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind.
