Quotes about Composition

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. Votes: 5

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. Votes: 5

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. Votes: 5

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. Votes: 5

Composition is frozen improvisation. Votes: 3

Composition is selective improvisation. Votes: 3

A Composition on the Piano Votes: 3

Composition has almost always been solitary. Votes: 3

Drawing and composition are the same thing. Votes: 3

Even in front of nature one must compose. Votes: 3

Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning. Votes: 3

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia. Votes: 3

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art. Votes: 3

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. Votes: 3

The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work. Votes: 3

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away. Votes: 3

Composition and choreography were always very important to me and I choreographed for my earliest training. Votes: 3

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. Votes: 3

Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books. Votes: 3

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. Votes: 3

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. Votes: 3

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense. Votes: 3

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition. Votes: 3

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition. Votes: 3

I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction. Votes: 3

There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself. Votes: 3

Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements. Votes: 3

Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given dimensions, I will jot down a drawing which will have a necessary relation to its format. Votes: 3

Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful. Votes: 3

Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF and then someone else makes it. It's like instructions for a short story, faxed to every English student who's studying it. Votes: 3

The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water... I don't think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky... but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter. Votes: 3

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. Votes: 3

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. Votes: 2

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. Votes: 2

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles. Votes: 2

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. Votes: 2

The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance. Votes: 2

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk. Votes: 2

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. Votes: 2

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design. Votes: 2

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure. Votes: 2

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection. Votes: 2

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner. Votes: 2

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense. Votes: 2

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't. Votes: 2

You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions. Votes: 2

Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile. Votes: 2

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets. Votes: 2

Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals. Votes: 2

The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting. Votes: 2

It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres. Votes: 2

When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy. Votes: 1

Favor composition over inheritance, Votes: 0

My religion lies in my composition. Votes: 0

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles. Votes: 0

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything. Votes: 0

I don't listen to much modern composition. Votes: 0

No one has the Houdini school of composition. Votes: 0

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing. Votes: 0

The act of composition is a series of discoveries. Votes: 0

poetrymelts my bones.enters my blood.and changesits composition. Votes: 0

My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings. Votes: 0

How much finer things are in composition than alone. Votes: 0

An entire composition written in jazz could not live. Votes: 0

The right use of color can make any composition work. Votes: 0

I wanted to explore sound, rather than composition and form. Votes: 0

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious. Votes: 0

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner. Votes: 0

You have to know composition to be a good improviser. Votes: 0

The composition is already there, you just need to crop it Votes: 0

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done Votes: 0

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics. Votes: 0

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition? Votes: 0

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street. Votes: 0

A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness. Votes: 0

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition. Votes: 0

To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all. Votes: 0

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. Votes: 0

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance Votes: 0

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition. Votes: 0

Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with. Votes: 0

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving... Votes: 0

Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere. Votes: 0

Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous. Votes: 0

Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done. Votes: 0

Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters. Votes: 0

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition. Votes: 0

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few. Votes: 0

I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do. Votes: 0

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations. Votes: 0

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away." Votes: 0

Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it. Votes: 0

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction. Votes: 0

Thank you Rob for the honor you have brought to our city with this oustanding composition. Votes: 0

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. Votes: 0

As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts. Votes: 0

There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem. Votes: 0

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. Votes: 0

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment. Votes: 0

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. Votes: 0

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good. Votes: 0

My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures. Votes: 0

My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right. Votes: 0

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition. Votes: 0

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. Votes: 0

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence. Votes: 0

I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition. Votes: 0

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. Votes: 0

If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light. Votes: 0

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition. Votes: 0

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing. Votes: 0

A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition. Votes: 0

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines. Votes: 0

Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it. Votes: 0

The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content. Votes: 0

Professor Milligan will now play his tree! The composition is in A Minor, the tree is in A garden. Votes: 0

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. Votes: 0

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation. Votes: 0

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles. Votes: 0

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. Votes: 0

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain. Votes: 0

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. Votes: 0

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color. Votes: 0

In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded... Votes: 0

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. Votes: 0

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. Votes: 0

The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with. Votes: 0

It is most difficult to acquire the, how shall I say? the 'depth' of a subject in composition in silhouette. Votes: 0

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going. Votes: 0

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers. Votes: 0

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. Votes: 0

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing. Votes: 0

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony. Votes: 0

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. Votes: 0

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition. Votes: 0

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds. Votes: 0

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing. Votes: 0

Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition. Votes: 0

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. Votes: 0

For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors. Votes: 0

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. Votes: 0

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame. Votes: 0

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence. Votes: 0

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition. Votes: 0

Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot. Votes: 0

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby. Votes: 0

By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old. Votes: 0

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye. Votes: 0

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. Votes: 0

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition. Votes: 0

I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design. Votes: 0

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas. Votes: 0

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness. Votes: 0

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time. Votes: 0

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not. Votes: 0

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express. Votes: 0

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does. Votes: 0

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition. Votes: 0

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells. Votes: 0

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean. Votes: 0

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean Votes: 0

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? Votes: 0

People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies. Votes: 0

I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room. Votes: 0

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition. Votes: 0

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed. Votes: 0

Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and vocal tracks. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. Votes: 0

It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth. Votes: 0

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms. Votes: 0

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it helps the general composition. Votes: 0

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say. Votes: 0

The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe. Votes: 0

I like, 'I Believe In Father Christmas' - that is one of my favorites it is a lovely composition; 'Colder Than Winter' as well. There are so many beautiful songs. Votes: 0

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else. Votes: 0

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience. Votes: 0

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with paving, landform, water, vegetation and climate. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again. Votes: 0

The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it. Votes: 0

The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness. Votes: 0

Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house. Votes: 0

I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part. Votes: 0

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...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. Votes: 0

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that. Votes: 0

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further. Votes: 0

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and texture, motion and mood, everything except composition. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are collections of MIDI messages with timing information. Votes: 0

Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure. Votes: 0

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference. Votes: 0

When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition. Votes: 0

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition. Votes: 0

Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the other greats. Analyzing Bach absolutely influenced my jazz playing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm. Votes: 0

Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor. Votes: 0

I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars. Votes: 0

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form. Votes: 0

When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous. Votes: 0

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard. Votes: 0

Music, art, and literature are inseparable for me. How does "composition" evolve in a music and art context? It's a question we can never answer: it only asks for more information and generates more questions. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Woven through Timothy J. Clark's paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to create graphic tensions which intrigue beyond the beautifully-painted forms of the subjects. Votes: 0

Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch). Votes: 0