Compositions Quotes

67 Compositions quotes by 58 unique authors

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
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
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
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. — John Philip Sousa
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
Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication… — Frederic Chopin
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
I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were… — Miroslav Vitous
With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album… — Bill Milkowski
There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. .… — Russell Page
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings… — Caio Fonseca
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels. — James S. Coleman
All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but… — Ernst Gombrich
I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity,… — Joe Locke
I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration. — Howard Pyle
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. — Paul Klee
Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being… — Morris Graves
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought. — Robert Genn
I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and… — E. J. Hughes
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport… — George Steiner
I could easily fill up each week with going to see debuts of friends' compositions alone. When you add in all of the bands I'm… — David First
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy.… — Umberto Eco
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Samuel Johnson
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. — Paul Klee

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