I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in… — Fred Schepisi Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line,… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting… — Larry Sultan 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 am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable")… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To get large groups of people to dance, there needs to be something accessible about the music. The beat can't be too… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all. — Christopher Tunnard Copy Share Image
Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A.… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I knew that, without killing the creative mood, I had to keep the balance between my emotional outburst and the merciless discipline… — Mary Wigman Copy Share Image
From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Woven through Timothy J. Clark’s paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to… — Will Barnet Copy Share Image
I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an… — Sarah Weeks Copy Share Image
Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
