Compose Quotes

234 quotes by 210 authors

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself,… — Plato
I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony… — Isaac Asimov
Even in front of nature one must compose. — Edgar Degas
I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to… — Tori Amos
Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience. — Gustav Mahler
I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my picture is my… — William Hogarth
I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the… — Childe Hassam
Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God. — Bartholomaus
These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive… — Theodore Roosevelt
The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is… — Charles Fort
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to… — Erasmus Darwin
My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly… — Burton Silverman
It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind… — Marcus Aurelius
I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note,… — Natalie Portman
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired… — William Gibson
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness,… — Graham Greene
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. — Nicolaus Copernicus
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at… — E L Doctorow
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their… — John Donne
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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