In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement…

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

— Eric Maisel

“Composition is the arrangement of unequal things”

— Richard Ford Canada

I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all…

— Brian Regan

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…

— Walter J. Phillips

The instrumental pieces are compositions, certainly, although that's not the language that I instinctively use. They're not scored, and arrangements are often arrived at…

— David Grubbs

I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of…

— Joe Locke

The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent;…

— Willem de Kooning

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His…

— Walter J. Phillips

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or…

— Walter J. Phillips

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these…

— Bill Wyman

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

— Rudolf Arnheim

The Beatles have a deeper appreciation of all music. There's a humor, there's a Broadway sense, and later on, the Indian stuff came in.…

— Jimmy Vivino

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…

— Herbert Spencer

Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but…

— Felix Frankfurter

for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is…

— Edward Weston