Backgrounds Quote by Myfanwy Pavelic

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.

— Chath Piersath

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward.…

— Larry Clark

Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to involve people.…

— JR

A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.

— Eric Maisel

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

To find a form that accommodates the shape of the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

— Samuel Beckett

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

— Edward Weston

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

Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

— Robert Genn

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

— Pierre Bonnard

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…

— Vincent Van Gogh