In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving... — William Francis Henry King Copy Share Image
We may say with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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 books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Have a special interest, a positive prejudice about some clump of trees or one particular knoll, an excitement about them can spread… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution… — David Shields Copy Share Image
When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
“[On Chopin's Preludes :] "His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought,… — George Sand 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
In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not… — Ruth Whitman Copy Share Image
The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition… — Victor Francis Hess Copy Share Image
If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I think this my last album - No Place For My Dream - truly is my best work. My fear now is,… — Femi Kuti Copy Share Image
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity… — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be,… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists,… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books. — Charlotte Mason 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
Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
