When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded,… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn… — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark,… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition. — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,'… — Niccolo Paganini Copy Share Image
Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those… — Ada Lovelace 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
To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You have to study composition to understand that things can be done backwards and forwards and upside down, inverted, but it's mainly… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but… — Winston Churchill 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
Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition.… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
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