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Composition Quotes by Henri Matisse
- An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must…
- 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…
- Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every…
- Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given…
- Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the…
More Composition Quotes
- The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good… — Joseph Addison
- My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant
- At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that… — Nick Clegg
- When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top… — Tadao Ando
- To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all. — Christopher Tunnard
- When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes… — Joseph Addison
- In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we… — Julia Cameron
- He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy… — Hector Hugh Munro
- My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven,… — Maurice Ravel
- As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the… — Isaac Newton
- If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite… — Guglielmo Marconi