Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the… — Georg Ernst Stahl Copy Share Image
I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to… — Ludivine Sagnier Copy Share Image
Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10… — Hari Sreenivasan Copy Share Image
The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest,… — Mark Twain 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
Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle Copy Share Image
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
It's better to find a composition through an instrument and to play it and record it because you have something. It's a… — Nicolas Godin Copy Share Image
The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment. — Stephen Nachmanovitch 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
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
Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra 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
If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light. — Lola Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing — Benny Carter Copy Share Image
In your works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction. — E. L. Doctorow 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
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