Even in front of nature one must compose.

“Why not, then, these trees, grass, etc., the alphabets of Nature when they compose the Volume of the Universe? Even the meanest clod of…

— Kaiten Nukariya

You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see…

— Caleb Deschanel

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer…

— Arnold Newman

In 1966, while working on a feature about a Picasso exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I recorded the pre-opening preparations and…

— Micha Bar-Am

I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being…

— Georges Braque

Works of art inspire me to compose.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I've been a full-time composer for many years, and I'm still learning all the time. There is always more than one musical "solution" to…

— John Keltonic

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.

— Sam Amidon

To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

— Robert Schumann

I got to compose for a full symphony orchestra.

— Jack Conte

I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a…

— Natalie Portman

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

— Andrea Hirata

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

— Steve Swallow

Every song that I compose has to satisfy the music director in me.

— Gopi Sundar

I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my…

— A. R. Rahman