Composition Quote by Denis Diderot

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

— Ned Rorem

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for…

— Josiah Wedgwood

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.

— Josiah Wedgwood

When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the…

— Mike Svob

“A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there…

— Jostein Gaarder

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

— Brian Eno

Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with.

— Harold Rosenberg

the one universal form of art is music.

— Faith Baldwin

In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.

— Henry Mancini

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles,…

— George Crumb