Composition Quotes

417 quotes by 332 authors

I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and… — Diane Arbus
When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to… — Edward Weston
The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys… — Philip Jones Griffiths
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures.… — Bill Brandt
The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution;… — James Madison
The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with. — George Washington
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as… — William Hazlitt
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I… — Lord Byron
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ...… — Jimmy Page
Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and… — Gordon Cooper
For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day,… — Gordon Cooper
Thank you Rob for the honor you have brought to our city with this oustanding composition. — Rocky Anderson
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. — Gertrude Stein
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art. — Brian Eno
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I… — Joan Collins
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of… — Matthew Modine
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing. — Edward Weston
When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of… — Richard Avedon
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity… — Wassily Kandinsky

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