When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a… — Harold Town Copy Share Image
With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded,… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
There are certain phrases in books of mine, and I don't know where they came from, or how I was capable of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When I'm editing, it's such a tough call, and I get challenged on it all the time. You've got to go with… — Russell James Copy Share Image
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass… — Diplo Copy Share Image
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to… — Henry Mackenzie 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 do very, very, very simple, skimpy doodles, nothing too committed. Because people tend to fall in love if they like it… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
I took some comp for non-comp major classes with Giacomo Bracali and Ludmila Ulela, who was a really famous composition teacher. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
A recreation is not the same as a remix. A recreation has a new element added to it. There are new lyrics… — Tulsi Kumar Copy Share Image
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life. — Nobuo Uematsu Copy Share Image
Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Copy Share Image
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed… — Anna Seward Copy Share Image
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand… — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“All writing, all composition, is construction. we do not imitate the world, we construct versions of it. there is no mimesis, only… — Robert Scholes Copy Share Image
It is most difficult to acquire the, how shall I say? the 'depth' of a subject in composition in silhouette. — Ugo Mochi Copy Share Image
In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
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