Composition Quotes

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.

My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

Composition is frozen improvisation.

If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition.

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.

...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the lighting, exposure and composition of the photograph.

I wanted to explore sound, rather than composition and form.

For my qualifying concert, Helmut Walcha would not coach Charles-Marie Widor or any American compositions. In his defense, his forte was Germanic composers, and his forte was really a fortissimo!

Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.

Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning.

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.

I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.

My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.

A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.

The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.

The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

Composition and choreography were always very important to me and I choreographed for my earliest training.

The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

I took some comp for non-comp major classes with Giacomo Bracali and Ludmila Ulela, who was a really famous composition teacher.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.