Composition Quotes

417 quotes by 332 authors

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color. — Annie Leibovitz
Everything must work in concert. Composition is important, but so are many other things, from content to the way colours work with or against each… — William Eggleston
You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition… — Caleb Deschanel
The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality… — Caleb Deschanel
As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have… — Albert Murray
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of… — Albert Murray
If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out the… — Sarah Parcak
A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a… — Russell Smith
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction. — E L Doctorow
One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition, especially with the… — Kesha Rogers
Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear. — Nancy Gibbs
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more… — Michael Leunig
The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978. — Lamar Alexander
I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition. — Horace Silver
Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in… — Max Heindel
I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make… — John Van Hamersveld
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two… — Oliver Ellsworth
MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are… — Charles Petzold
The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting… — Paul Di Filippo
Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.… — Edward Weston

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