Composition Quotes
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Composition Quotes & Sayings
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The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
— Ernst Haas
Thinking is translating 'prosaic-ideas' without accessories" since ideas (in brain) do not follow any metrical composition.
— Md. Ziaul Haque
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving ...
— William Francis Henry King
Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.
— Frank Bruno
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
— Henry David Thoreau
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.
— Richard Rodney Bennett
By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition
— Bedrich Smetana
We are God's productions, His compositions.
— David Jeremiah
With composition, parts can't be shared with other objects. The life of the part is completely within the life span of the whole.
— Michael Jesse Chonoles
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
— William Shenstone
I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.
— Walter J. Phillips
In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.
— George Washington
I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.
— Alejo Carpentier
Composition is selective improvisation.
— Igor Stravinsky
So called "composition" becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
— Edward Weston
Favor composition over inheritance,
— Joshua Bloch
Thank you Rob for the honor you have brought to our city with this oustanding composition.
— Rocky Anderson
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.
— Georges Braque
The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
— James Madison
Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous.
— Henri Marie Ducrotay De Blainville
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
— Henry Fielding
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance
— Garry Kasparov
Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.
— Horace Silver
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
— Jane Haddam
I wanted to explore sound, rather than composition and form.
— Ashkan Kooshanejad
Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole ... by the mingling of the most contrary principles.
— Aristotle.
A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition.
— Vasily Smyslov
The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.
— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.
— Neville Cardus
It is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.
— Lola Alvarez Bravo
Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one composition.
— Samuel Johnson
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
— Joseph Addison
Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
— Robert Genn
My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
— Rashid Johnson
This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop
— Paul Hindemith
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.
— Samuel Beckett
A brown composition, which looked like diluted pincushions without the covers, and was called porridge.
— Charles Dickens
I don't listen to much modern composition.
— Colin Greenwood
The composition of each epoch depends upon the way the frequented roads are frequented.
— Gertrude Stein
The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
— Lamar Alexander
No one has the Houdini school of composition.
— Morton Feldman
The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think.
— Pentti Linkola
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
— Michael Ignatieff
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
— Toru Takemitsu
Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.
— Yoshi Wada
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
— Johannes Stark
Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.
— Steve Tibbetts
Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.
— Mike MacDonald
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
— Yann Tiersen
The connections between them were like an atonal composition, no key, no rhythm, no form.
— B.V. Lawson
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
— Charles Lamb
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.
— Franz Schubert
It is most difficult to acquire the, how shall I say? the 'depth' of a subject in composition in silhouette.
— Ugo Mochi
In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.
— William Albert Allard
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
— Denis Diderot
I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.
— Robert Morris
From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.
— Joan Larkin
I'm the one flunking out of this goddam place, and you're asking me to write you a goddam composition.
— J.D. Salinger
Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.
— Santoka Taneda
Drawing and composition are the same thing.
— John French Sloan
The right use of color can make any composition work.
— Fairfield Porter
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
— Edward Weston
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
— Michel De Montaigne
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture ... It's palpable.
— William Shatner
How much finer things are in composition than alone.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
