Composition Quotes

417 quotes by 332 authors

Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and… — Samuel Johnson
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts… — Samuel Johnson
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. — William Shenstone
The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the… — Cyril Connolly
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful… — Cyril Connolly
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines. — Jane Haddam
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand… — Alfred de Vigny
You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea… — Roy Lichtenstein
So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that… — Matthew Modine
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the… — Wilhelm Ostwald
The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed… — Wilhelm Ostwald
Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems… — Eric Liu
The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly… — Anton Seidl
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. — Johannes Stark
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. — Karlheinz Stockhausen
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. — Toru Takemitsu
We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction… — Paulo Freire
I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I… — Rohinton Mistry
I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the… — Denise Mina
Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the fascination… — Gerhard Richter

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