Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration. — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which… — James Nasmyth Copy Share Image
There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to… — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
At times on overseas tours, we assess if there are more left-handers or right-handers in the opposition and accordingly, the team's composition… — Ravindra Jadeja Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm getting closer and closer to myself with time, not only in terms of my career choices, but the… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn;… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio 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
Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous… — William Hazlitt 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
“Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I love theater, a performance and designing a visual spectacle. It is like creating a composition with clothes, which have to fit… — Isabel Toledo Copy Share Image
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. — Barrett Wendell Copy Share Image
Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false,… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Composition and choreography were always very important to me and I choreographed for my earliest training. — Jack Waters Copy Share Image
I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If one had to single out the most revolutionary novelty furnished by Qumran, its contribution to our understanding of the genesis of… — Geza Vermes Copy Share Image
I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good. — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture...… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
