Composition Quotes

417 quotes by 332 authors

Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional criteria I had… — Gerhard Richter
There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. .… — Russell Page
It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is… — Thomas Chatterton
After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit'… — Dave Brubeck
Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition… — Laura Chinchilla
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings… — Caio Fonseca
I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition. — Eddy Grant
The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may… — Lascelles Abercrombie
Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on… — Sergio Aragones
Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially… — Thomas Jefferson
The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels. — James S. Coleman
No one has the Houdini school of composition. — Morton Feldman
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition. — Stephen Gardiner
I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras,… — Bianca Jagger
The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics. — Bruno Latour
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition. — Dave Grohl
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract… — Ada Lovelace
I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye. — Andre Kertesz
In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is… — James Hansen

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