Composition Quotes
When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.
Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.
That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others
My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.
A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.
I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.
I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.
Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.
There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.
The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.
White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.
Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.
Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.
I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particularly interesting.
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he does not transgress the laws of probability.
In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.
I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.
A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.
pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." Marisol
Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.
The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, and writing share certain commonalities of deep composition: spirit, rhythm, thought, and scenery.
Tree trunks are composed of layers of growth. Meaningful expressions are composed of layers of words. Say something meaningful.
Every salad you serve is a picture you have painted, a sculpture you have modeled, a drama you have created.
