Composition Quotes
There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.
In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.
I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition.
For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.
When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it helps the general composition.
When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.
...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.
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.
That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.
I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.
Thank you Rob for the honor you have brought to our city with this oustanding composition.
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.
Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and vocal tracks.
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.
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving.
The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.
The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.