Composition Quotes

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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away. — Robert Henri
This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to… — William Strunk, Jr.
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about,… — Dexter Gordon
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence. — Brian Eno
Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles. — Horace Silver
I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several… — Vincent Van Gogh
I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always strive to give… — Henri Matisse
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. — John Philip Sousa
What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition… — Frans Lanting
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example, ideal transformations of… — Van Day Truex
A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition. — Vasily Smyslov
Liszt commenting on the music of FrÃ©dÃ©ric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication… — Frederic Chopin
I'm just wowed by the universe. I'm just glad to do something I love to do. I love color, I love painting, I love shapes,… — Peter Max
The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large… — William Lyon Mackenzie King
None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different,… — Aga Khan IV
We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its… — Samuel Reshevsky
I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries… — Democritus
The more light in your composition, the more generous you are. That is the first sign of a true light warrior. They give without waiting… — Suzy Kassem
Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of… — Georg Ernst Stahl
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind… — Ambrose Bierce

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