Composition Quotes

417 quotes by 332 authors

Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here. — Robert Genn
A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability... — Robert Genn
With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or… — Robert Genn
I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition. — E. J. Hughes
I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and… — E. J. Hughes
When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it… — E. J. Hughes
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure… — Edgar Allan Poe
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid. — David Salle
My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless trillions… — Charles Lindbergh
Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds… — William Hazlitt
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport… — George Steiner
I could easily fill up each week with going to see debuts of friends' compositions alone. When you add in all of the bands I'm… — David First
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. — Edward Gibbon
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. — Vincent Van Gogh
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays,… — Joan Collins
I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and… — Leonardo da Vinci
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
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy.… — Umberto Eco
Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this… — Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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