Composition Quotes

417 quotes by 332 authors

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of… — Malcolm De Chazal
The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who… — Pentti Linkola
All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light. There is no single right way to express yourself. There are infinite… — Vittorio Storaro
Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and… — Bill Bryson
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to… — Florence King
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. — Florence King
When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells. — Joshua Lederberg
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions… — Anna Seward
I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition. — Dizzy Gillespie
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his… — Diego Rivera
I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me… — Jerry Reed
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition. — Charles Caleb Colton
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry… — John Ruskin
Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will… — Joshua Reynolds
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. — Ambrose Bierce
Woven through Timothy J. Clarkâ€™s paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to create graphic tensions… — Will Barnet
I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going. — Robin Trower
You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We're… — Bill McKibben
In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter… — Ruth Whitman
I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as a… — Fernando Botero

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