Books Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture…

— Henri Matisse

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without…

— Diego Rivera

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will…

— Paul Gauguin

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in…

— Francisco Goya

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

— Brian Eno

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,'…

— Gerhard Richter

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...

— Henri Matisse

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

— Alexander Calder

I may juggle the composition, as the strength of a picture is in the composition. Or I may play with the light. But I…

— George Rodger