...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, exoplanets can be any size, and they are found in a wide range of orbits. Some have massive gas atmospheres;… — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not… — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave… — Madeleine Stowe Copy Share Image
Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle Copy Share Image
Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
“Plenty of masterpieces are just one cliché after another, Mozart for example, but that's quite natural, because if you think about it,… — Thomas Ades Copy Share Image
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven,… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make… — Socrates 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
The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“What the classical formalists meant by the objection “Quality is just what you like” was that this subjective, undefined “quality” he was… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
You're so kind, Kazuhiko. That's what I like about you." I like you, too. I love you so much." If he weren't… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
“JESUS & THE WEATHER I don't think Jesus Who is Our Lord would have liked the weather in Limerick because it's always… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of… — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
“Certainty' with respect to successful language learning and use--whether oral, written, or technologically mediated combinations--applies less and less to discrete products and… — Jay Jordan Copy Share Image
I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment. — Stephen Nachmanovitch 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
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition… — Bernard Kouchner 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
People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song. — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
If you observe, all classic love songs have a tinge of melancholy that comes naturally with the composition. — Vidyasagar Copy Share Image
I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally… — Pat Conroy 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
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image