Composition Quotes

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Favor composition over inheritance, — Joshua Bloch
In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the… — Forrest Gander
I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to… — Peter Greenaway
How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep… — Sam Abell
You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them. — Robert Schumann
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of… — Alexander Rodchenko
The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Combining these two ancient teachings (yoga and vipassana) in a seamless manner, which will bring maximum benefits to the meditators, is not at all a… — Amit Ray
The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way… — Alan Watts
Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it. — Johannes Brahms
The responsibility for maintaining the composition of the blood in respect to other constituents devolves largely upon the kidneys. It is no exaggeration to say… — Homer Smith
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a… — James Keller
An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of… — Marshall McLuhan
The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly composition, the noble… — Alexander Rodchenko
A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long… — Ambrose Bierce
The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. — James Madison
Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many… — Madeleine Stowe
In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it is still a… — Jesse L. Greenstein
It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the… — Michael Jackson

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