When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I don't study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I'm not watching film - I watch the entire film to see… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
“If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat.… — Muriel Spark 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
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As time has gone on, I've gotten bigger and bigger. My body composition has changed. — Michael Chiesa Copy Share Image
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which… — Giorgio Morandi 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
I love theater, a performance and designing a visual spectacle. It is like creating a composition with clothes, which have to fit… — Isabel Toledo Copy Share Image
It will be found that everything depends on the composition of the forces with which the particles of matter act upon one… — Roger Joseph Boscovich Copy Share Image
There are certain phrases in books of mine, and I don't know where they came from, or how I was capable of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into… — Bruce Barnbaum 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
White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas 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
