Composition Quotes - Page 14

• 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.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Fear, Book, Differences

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• Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Ideas, Intellectual

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.475, Courier Corporation

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• The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.

  Anais Nin

  Strong, Cooking, Black

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• A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

  Norton Juster

  Smell, Gone, Phantom Tollbooth

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• You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.

  Stevie Wonder

  Song, People, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.

  Robert Schumann

  Writing, Fate, Hands

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Color, Skills

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• The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Thinking, Historical

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• Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Umpires, Progress, Arbitration

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• 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

  Mother, School, Years

  "Age becomes her" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

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• I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Eugenics, Kind, Chemicals

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• The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

  Paul Klee

  Life, Art, Expression

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.61, Parkstone International

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• Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  "The Sayings of Doctor Johnson".

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• There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

  Arnold Newman

  Photography, Perfect, Rules And Regulations

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• Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.

  Frank Bruno

  Sports, Strong, Athlete

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• Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Men, Two

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.126, Univ of California Press

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• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Pain, Writing

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• To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

  Henry Fielding

  Writing, Romance, Ink

  Henry Fielding (1821). “The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott].”, p.305

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• Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

  Horace

  Eye, Years, Literature

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• All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their art. Their compositions contain specific messages brought through from high realms for the definite purpose of bettering world conditions and bestowing upon mankind greater illumination.

  Corinne Heline

  Art, Inspiration, Illumination

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• On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it!" He was writing from Karlsruhe, in the midst of his triumphal tour through Germany. That letter marks the earliest known mention of the variations that would become famous as "The Carnival of Venice." At the time of his letter, Paganini had already performed the piece in at least four concerts. From then on, it would be one of his most popular compositions.

  Niccolo Paganini

  Friendship, Writing, Venice

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• 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.

  James Black

  Science, Drug, Technique

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• I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.

  Yves Klein

  Bars, Lines, Painting

  Yves Klein (2000). “Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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• [Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study of the laws of heat; and lastly, he demonstrated the nature of water and determined its volumetric composition. Earth, air, fire, and water-each and all came within the range of his observations.

  Thomas Edward Thorpe

  Science, Fire, Air

  Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe (1894). “Essays in Historical Chemistry”

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• I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.'

  Hugo Wolf

  Music, Song, Want

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