Composition Quotes

417 quotes by 332 authors

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. — Rick Moody
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain. — Claude Monet
I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into my photographs beyond… — Bruce Barnbaum
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good… — Socrates
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness. — Robert Bringhurst
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in… — Henri Rabaud
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. — Georges Braque
Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a manâ€™s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain… — Henry Mackenzie
Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which… — Isaac Newton
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because… — Andre Bazin
I may juggle the composition, as the strength of a picture is in the composition. Or I may play with the light. But I never… — George Rodger
It wasn't even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could… — George Rodger
I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn; but to be… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute,… — Joseph Haydn
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. — Michel de Montaigne
And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done — Pierre Bonnard
My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs. — Franz Schubert
Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many.… — Umberto Eco
I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real… — Antonin Dvorak
When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a painter is painting,… — Julia Margaret Cameron

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