When I got to college, I didn't take writing classes, just the standard freshman composition class. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition. — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I love playing in Fantomas, which is very strict in terms of composition. — Trevor Dunn Copy Share Image
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition. — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
I am a fan of the compositions of The Beatles, but I don't care for their interpretation of them. But as compositions,… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture...… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or… — Robert Bringhurst 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
Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Have a special interest, a positive prejudice about some clump of trees or one particular knoll, an excitement about them can spread… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to… — Jons Jacob Berzelius Copy Share Image
Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
For the love of ammonites, man! That's just stupid. Why on earth would the Society need to protect unmarried women from bone-dry… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
To get large groups of people to dance, there needs to be something accessible about the music. The beat can't be too… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
Combining these two ancient teachings (yoga and vipassana) in a seamless manner, which will bring maximum benefits to the meditators, is not… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and… — Elliott Sharp Copy Share Image
A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness. — Eric Maisel 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
Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing. — Yann Tiersen Copy Share Image
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