Composition Quotes

417 quotes by 332 authors

Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being… — Morris Graves
Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some… — Philip Guston
The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night,… — Mickey Hart
The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work. — Wassily Kandinsky
The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and… — Wassily Kandinsky
Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure… — Kazimir Malevich
Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or… — Robert Rauschenberg
Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows.… — B R Ambedkar
By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem… — Charles Webster Hawthorne
The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he… — Walter J. Phillips
A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may… — Walter J. Phillips
There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms… — Walter J. Phillips
In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded... — Walter J. Phillips
A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness. — Eric Maisel
Do not be afraid that too much labour over the composition is going to kill the spontaneity. Those who absorb and digest their experiences are,… — John F. Carlson
I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to… — Richard Diebenkorn
A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the… — Eric Fischl
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought. — Robert Genn
One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting. — Robert Genn

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