Composition Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything…

— Henri Matisse

It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues…

— David Bailey

I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But it was…

— Gerhard Richter

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

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

— Larry Clark

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

— Edward Weston

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

— Lev Yilmaz

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

The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over…

— Myfanwy Pavelic

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

— JR

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

“With practice one can follow the material as it develops and can actually speak with it, as Jung did, which means, of course, that…

— Gary Valentine Lachman