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Composition Quotes by Umberto Eco
- 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.…
- Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy.…
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