Composition Quotes

417 quotes by 332 authors

If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark, then look up!… — Derek R. Audette
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of… — Thomas B. Macaulay
All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but… — Ernst Gombrich
When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover… — Joseph Addison
I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another. — Pablo Picasso
There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an… — John Philip Sousa
I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity,… — Joe Locke
In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are… — Bernard Berenson
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every… — Henri Matisse
Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given… — Henri Matisse
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the… — Henri Matisse
Even in front of nature one must compose. — Edgar Degas
I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered… — Georges Braque
I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration. — Howard Pyle
I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may… — Ansel Adams
Composition is selective improvisation. — Igor Stravinsky
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and… — Eli Siegel
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. — Paul Klee
From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter himself,… — Joshua Reynolds
Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with. — Harold Rosenberg

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