A Quote by Alexander Calder

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

Alexander Calder

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Colors Compose Forms Just Motions

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Alexander Calder
American - Sculptor
July 22, 1898 - November 11, 1976

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I don't compose rap songs or party numbers. I only compose folk.

Diljit Dosanjh

I like to compose, but only for myself. I write my own lyrics and compose the music around them.

Arijit Singh

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

Igor Stravinsky

I compose for very limited people in Bollywood, as I am not a playback artist. I compose my songs and sing them.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

My dear sister! I’m amazed to discover that you can compose so delightfully. In a word, your Lied is beautiful. You must compose more often.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any certain way attain to the true causes, he will adopt whatever suppositions enable the motions to be computed correctly from the principles of geometry for the future as well as for the past.

Andreas Osiander

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Nicolaus Copernicus

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.

Conor Oberst

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

Hideo Kojima

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.

Gunther Schuller

'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I'm driving or in the shower.

Robert Pinsky

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

Michel de Montaigne

I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges.

Robert Pinsky

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.