Composition Quotes

The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

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

Composition has almost always been solitary.

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the story in such a way that bias cannot be recognized.

Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

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 me than I took over it.

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition.

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

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

The right use of color can make any composition work.

When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work.

A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

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

To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.

Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe.

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.