I am a fan of the compositions of The Beatles, but I don't care for their interpretation of them. But as compositions,… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an… — Eddy Grant Copy Share Image
The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. — Josiah Wedgwood Copy Share Image
When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them… — E. J. Hughes 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
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Plenty of masterpieces are just one cliché after another, Mozart for example, but that's quite natural, because if you think about it,… — Thomas Ades Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation.… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I was with Miles Davisfor a couple of years as his bass player, and it was a beautiful experience. After two years… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good… — Alexander Payne 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
Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom… — Anton Seidl 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
The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance. — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in… — Bedrich Smetana Copy Share Image
There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs. — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations. — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
Security and care of the objects is paramount. Arty composition comes after everything is safe from greasy fingers, humidity or excess light. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
From the composition side of a musician, we have to cater to what the director wants, what the subject demands. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
