Composition Quotes

417 quotes by 332 authors

Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation… — Robert Stawell Ball
I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I… — Hugo Wolf
[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study… — Thomas Edward Thorpe
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison… — Yves Klein
Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous. — Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition. — James Black
I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always… — Giorgio Morandi
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I… — Niccolo Paganini
All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their art.… — Corinne Heline
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. — Horace
Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk. — Edward Weston
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. — Henry Fielding
The act of composition is a series of discoveries. — E L Doctorow
Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the… — Lindley Murray
I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live… — Ken Burns
In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. — William Albert Allard
This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving… — Sam Abell
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to… — Edward Weston

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