There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem. — Billy Collins 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
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
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right. — Ernst Haas 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
The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
For me, this is one of the advantages of not using digital, I never know when I have a good photograph! I… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Well, I've heard a lot of people, but I think I would say a Brazilian musician named Hermeto Pascoal was one of… — Flora Purim 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
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not… — Thomas B. Macaulay 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
You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would… — Stevie Wonder 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
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
The composition of my desserts is taken care of by the farmers' market. — Sherry Yard Copy Share Image
The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I've never really found it that important to focus too much on the fact that I'm a female. I feel like if… — Maya Jane Coles Copy Share Image
Composition is what's similar between being photographer and director. As a photographer, you're sort of doing everything - you're directing the lights… — Russell James Copy Share Image
I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
