The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously;… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
If I'm creating the composition, it's easier for me as an actor because I've just cut out the middle man. Because I've… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
There are so many different ways to talk and think about art. We just spoke about when attitude becomes form. But when… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may… — Jean-Baptiste Dumas Copy Share Image
I will look through 200 photographs of Kate Moss and there will be just one that I connect with for some reason,… — Stella Vine Copy Share Image
Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature,… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle… — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous. — Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville Copy Share Image
I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition. — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it. — Steve Tibbetts Copy Share Image
In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him… — Frederic Rzewski Copy Share Image
I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose… — Lindley Murray Copy Share Image
Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
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