Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I have learned from nature that all is equal... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together. — Joseph Raffael Copy Share Image
In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on.… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
“The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My first album was more about me making a statement, as I felt like I was kind of stuck in the smaller… — Maya Jane Coles Copy Share Image
God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
For the love of ammonites, man! That's just stupid. Why on earth would the Society need to protect unmarried women from bone-dry… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
No man should be viewed as having more to offer the world than another. We are all equals and every human being… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that,… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better… — Jean Wilson Copy Share Image
I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels. — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and… — James Black Copy Share Image
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
'Muntazir' has a very feel-good vibe to it. It's Strings' signature composition, especially the pre-chorus. I thoroughly enjoyed lending my vocals to… — Momina Mustehsan Copy Share Image
“And this music? It was something akin to the masters, not in composition or length, but rather in the heart behind it.” — Gabriellyn Gidman Copy Share Image
For my qualifying concert, Helmut Walcha would not coach Charles-Marie Widor or any American compositions. In his defense, his forte was Germanic… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition,… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Chandigarh Mein' is about the energy of Punjab, which I have infused into my music, sound and composition to produce this original… — Tanishk Bagchi Copy Share Image
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