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Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing. — Brian Eno

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition. — Jane Austen

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

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. — Florence King

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

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving ... — William Francis Henry King

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. — Arthur Murphy

So many die without our caring, decline to silence in rooms beyond hearing. We honor the dead and abhor the dying.
- from the story De Composition — David Benioff

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

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. — Rick Moody

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics. — Bruno Latour

the fine or composition-money for killing a king was 30,000 thrimsas ($13,000); — Will Durant

Composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations. — Ned Rorem

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

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant. — Margaret Atwood

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

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. — Anton Seidl

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

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished. — David Tudor

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

A brown composition, which looked like diluted pincushions without the covers, and was called porridge. — Charles Dickens

I have fallen so many times I should be a master of soil composition, and bruises. — Myself

Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here. — Robert Genn

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

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

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

Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one composition. — Samuel Johnson

The connections between them were like an atonal composition, no key, no rhythm, no form. — B.V. Lawson

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art. — Brian Eno

The composition of each epoch depends upon the way the frequented roads are frequented. — Gertrude Stein

My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures. — Rashid Johnson

No one has the Houdini school of composition. — Morton Feldman

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing. — Yann Tiersen

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious. — John Fahey

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony. — Stephen Sondheim

hubris on Henry's, too much Greek prose composition - whatever — Donna Tartt

There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem. — Billy Collins

For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors. — Doug Dawson

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. — Michael Jackson

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going. — Robin Trower

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. — Ambrose Bierce

This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop — Paul Hindemith

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. — Charles Lamb

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

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does. — Nick Clegg

It is most difficult to acquire the, how shall I say? the 'depth' of a subject in composition in silhouette. — Ugo Mochi

I love playing in Fantomas, which is very strict in terms of composition. — Trevor Dunn

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow. — Juan Gris

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. — Franz Schubert

My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings. — Larry Clark

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia. — Richard Wilbur

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds. — Steve Lacy

The composition is already there, you just need to crop it — Jay Maisel

How much finer things are in composition than alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. — Michel De Montaigne

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

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk. — Edward Weston

The right use of color can make any composition work. — Fairfield Porter

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

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. — Edwin Land

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. — Michael Ignatieff

Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life. — Santoka Taneda

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition. — Yoko Ono

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. — Toru Takemitsu

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

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation. — Yoshi Wada

poetry
melts my bones.
enters my blood.

and changes
its composition. — Sanober Khan

I'm the one flunking out of this goddam place, and you're asking me to write you a goddam composition. — J.D. Salinger

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

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. — Johannes Stark

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

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few. — Denis Diderot

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. — William Albert Allard

Drawing and composition are the same thing. — John French Sloan

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

As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

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