I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
“With composition, parts can’t be shared with other objects. The life of the part is completely within the life span of the… — Michael Jesse Chonoles Copy Share Image
A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded... — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“While [Frank H.] Young added, 'In a good modern layout the principles of all good layout still prevail . . . cohesion,… — Steven Heller Copy Share Image
The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I still make music. I still write music and I record music, I just don't trust music promotion [and] distribution right now… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of… — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition… — Ken Burns 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
To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In 1966, while working on a feature about a Picasso exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I recorded the pre-opening… — Micha Bar-Am Copy Share Image
I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a… — Jimmy Page 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
“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
“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
The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“All writing, all composition, is construction. we do not imitate the world, we construct versions of it. there is no mimesis, only… — Robert Scholes Copy Share Image
It is most difficult to acquire the, how shall I say? the 'depth' of a subject in composition in silhouette. — Ugo Mochi Copy Share Image
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed… — Anna Seward Copy Share Image
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand… — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Copy Share Image
A recreation is not the same as a remix. A recreation has a new element added to it. There are new lyrics… — Tulsi Kumar Copy Share Image
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life. — Nobuo Uematsu Copy Share Image
Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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