From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than… — Joshua Reynolds 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
A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration. — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you… — Laura Chinchilla Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will… — William Rawle Copy Share Image
Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the… — Forrest Gander Copy Share Image
Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral;… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light. There is no single right way to express yourself.… — Vittorio Storaro Copy Share Image
Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
At the age of 11, I started composing and my first composition was sung by my father. — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my… — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
