Composition Quotes

417 quotes by 332 authors

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Samuel Johnson
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. — Paul Klee
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not. — Annie Leibovitz
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. — Antoine Lavoisier
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their… — Marshall McLuhan
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. — Claude Monet
There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and… — Arnold Newman
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and… — Yoko Ono
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar… — Jimmy Page
Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court,… — Ludwig Quidde
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to… — Salman Rushdie
The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch,… — Jerry Saltz
An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as… — Robert Schumann
Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it… — Ravi Shankar
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable. — William Shatner
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how… — John Philip Sousa
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. — Henry David Thoreau
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies… — James Thurber
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted… — Walt Whitman
You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's… — Stevie Wonder

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