Composition Quote by Neville Cardus

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which…

— Joseph Addison

“If we read the new masterpiece of a man of genius, we are delighted to find in it those reflections of ours that we…

— Alain de Botton

“The greatest book ever composed was marked at one point unconventional. Also it was marked difficult to read and comprehend, especially in its original…

— Marcus G Monroe

“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things…

— Walter Isaacson

“The greatest book ever composed was marked at one point unconventional. Also it was marked difficult to read, especially in its original format. Yet…

— Marcus G Monroe

Whenever I think of God I can only conceive of Him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the…

— Joseph Haydn

“Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed…

— Virginia Woolf

“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Genius is the ability to leave entirely out of sight our own interest, our willing, and our aims, and consequently to discard entirely our…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

— Benjamin Haydon

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“He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in…

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