If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
As all nocturnal creatures, I have a tendency to wander about during the night, embracing and relishing in its mysteriousness, unexplained sounds,… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded... — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by… — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to… — Jons Jacob Berzelius 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
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language.… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. — Dexter Gordon 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
The instrumental pieces are compositions, certainly, although that's not the language that I instinctively use. They're not scored, and arrangements are often… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
For one, the whole concept of 'Live From Here' - writing a song every week - was like composition bootcamp. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
