The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
A great composition or lyrics no longer decide whether something is good. What matters is, how much has it been seen. — Diljit Dosanjh Copy Share Image
Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it… — Hugo Wolf Copy Share Image
My goal is to put out an album with every song being an original composition of mine. I want the credits to… — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I have never doubted the importance of melody. I like melody very much, and I consider it the most important element in… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral;… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an… — Sarah Weeks Copy Share Image
Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control… — Plato Copy Share Image
Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture… — Robert Stromberg Copy Share Image
Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Regardless of its purpose, the humpback-whale song is the most complex piece of nonhuman composition on earth. Whether it's art, prayer, or… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him… — Howard Roberts Copy Share Image
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light. There is no single right way to express yourself.… — Vittorio Storaro Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
I don't know what good composition is… Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
