William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition.… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
If I'm creating the composition, it's easier for me as an actor because I've just cut out the middle man. Because I've… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid that too much labour over the composition is going to kill the spontaneity. Those who absorb and digest… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The interval, then, between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact,… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn… — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into… — Marshall McLuhan 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
I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“A writer discovers what he knows as he knows it, i.e., as he makes it. No artist writes in order to objectify… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a… — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on.… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of… — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms… — George Lee Butler Copy Share Image
I still make music. I still write music and I record music, I just don't trust music promotion [and] distribution right now… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
The responsibility for maintaining the composition of the blood in respect to other constituents devolves largely upon the kidneys. It is no… — Homer Smith Copy Share Image
It wasn't even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered… — George Rodger Copy Share Image
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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