Top 689 Composition Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.
The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
When it comes to our 'Jai ho,' the song became a super hit because of the composition of Rahman... He made the tune.
When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.
'Muntazir' has a very feel-good vibe to it. It's Strings' signature composition, especially the pre-chorus. I thoroughly enjoyed lending my vocals to it.
When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.
There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
A great composition or lyrics no longer decide whether something is good. What matters is, how much has it been seen.
People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.
A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
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.
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.
I don't believe in making two songs similar. Every composition must have its own unique character.
I studied fine arts, and color and composition was always my thing, but I've never been too wild with my fashion.
We're more about other things over odd timings: orchestration, composition, horn/vocal arrangements - that's where we get super weird.
Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.
...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.
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.
The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.
I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.
The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.
I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.
It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth.
Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.
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 never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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?
The shape and composition of the government is important. We haven't reached a point where politics and economics have been totally divorced from each other.
From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.
I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.
Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.
The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.
Once a composition is complete I sing the track and send it to the director. He sometimes suggests I record them in my voice, and I go ahead.
Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.
You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
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.
When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.
I like, 'I Believe In Father Christmas' - that is one of my favorites it is a lovely composition; 'Colder Than Winter' as well. There are so many beautiful songs.
