Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.” — Margaret Atwood 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
I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do. — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition. — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs. — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. — Barrett Wendell Copy Share Image
Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less,… — Robert Stawell Ball Copy Share Image
It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and… — Tony Conrad Copy Share Image
Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and… — Michael Langford 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
Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see… — Dennis Prager 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
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Chance in music doesn't have to involve the I Ching or rolling dice or throwing yarrow stalks. It can involve an out-of-tune… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
My first album was more about me making a statement, as I felt like I was kind of stuck in the smaller… — Maya Jane Coles Copy Share Image
“Something is conscious of us. It listens as it plays upon the instruments that we are. It takes delight in the cacophony,… — Dielle Ciesco Copy Share Image
The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“A single composition can have so many meanings depending on the person playing.” — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it. — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics. — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines. — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
At times on overseas tours, we assess if there are more left-handers or right-handers in the opposition and accordingly, the team's composition… — Ravindra Jadeja 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
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which… — James Nasmyth Copy Share Image
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