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
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
One of the principals of composition, I would say, in fiction, is you want to do what you can do a lot… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics. — Bruno Latour 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
Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do. — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded… — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or… — Pablo Picasso 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
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Question the images. Take them by the hand and don't let the sweet distancing they offer you vanquish you; do away with… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of… — Thomas Chatterton 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
