The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving... — William Francis Henry King Copy Share Image
It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing — Benny Carter Copy Share Image
A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all. — Christopher Tunnard Copy Share Image
If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them. — Leonardo da Vinci 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
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
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
From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I don’t worry about the likeness… — Mark Applebaum Copy Share Image
I will look through 200 photographs of Kate Moss and there will be just one that I connect with for some reason,… — Stella Vine Copy Share Image
I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite… — William Klein Copy Share Image
Because of my compact and muscular body composition, my short hair, and my "Johawk," I have been mistaken for a boy on… — Joanna Lohman Copy Share Image
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous… — William Hazlitt 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
“The Author To Her Book Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the… — James Keller Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The composition of my desserts is taken care of by the farmers' market. — Sherry Yard Copy Share Image
Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning. — Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Copy Share Image
Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous. — Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville Copy Share Image
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