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Composition Quotes by Walter J. Phillips
- The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he…
- A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may…
- There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms…
- In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded...
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- My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant
- Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that… — Nick Clegg
- To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all. — Christopher Tunnard
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- At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a… — Robert Bunsen