Composition Quotes - Page 16

• How much finer things are in composition than alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Harmony, Finer Things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.198, Harvard University Press

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• Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Jesus, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.

  Charlotte Mason

  Running, Children, Book

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving.

  William Francis Henry King

  Light, Pages, Fine

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• 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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Body, Consideration, Share

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with paving, landform, water, vegetation and climate.

  Tom Turner

  Art, Garden, Water

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Population

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• It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains, which he himself could never hope to hear.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Talking, Piano

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• Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Differences, Principles

  sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.31

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• 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.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Lines, Firsts, Form

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• Combining these two ancient teachings (yoga and vipassana) in a seamless manner, which will bring maximum benefits to the meditators, is not at all a challenge. It is just removal of some mental blocks. Ideally speaking, this combination should be done based on scientific, clinical and neurobiological studies and the combined structure should be made brick by brick, layer by layer in a flawless manner as a homogeneous composition.

  Amit Ray

  Block, Yoga, Teaching

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• The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way in dancing, you don't aim at one particular spot in the room... The whole point of dancing is the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Rain, Dancing, Sound

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• In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [υ Sagittarii] and it is still a fascinating, not understood, star. It's the first star in which you could clearly demonstrate an enormous difference in chemical composition from the sun. It had almost no hydrogen. It was made largely of helium, and had much too much nitrogen and neon. It's still a mystery in many ways ... But it was the first star ever analysed that had a different composition, and I started that area of spectroscopy in the late thirties.

  Jesse L. Greenstein

  Stars, Science, Years

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• 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

  Attitude, Mean, Enthusiasm For Life

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.240

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• A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how."

  James Keller

  Music, Writing, Men

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• Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Attitude, Writing

  "Understanding media: the extensions of man".

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• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Inspiration, Thinking, Eclectic Style

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• The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly composition, the noble purity of the lines, the rich plasticity of the form and consequently also the poetry and beauty of the picture, and still more important, its specifically photographic qualities.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Glasses, Appreciate, Quality

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• The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

  James Madison

  Federalism, Constitution

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.179

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• Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of the objects, with a crude handling of matter. Moments altogether new, never seen before compositions whose boldness outstrips the imagination of painters Then the creation of those instants which do not exist, contrived by means of photomontage. The negative transmits altogether new stimuli to the sentient mind and eye.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Strong, Eye, Mean

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• 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

  Hate, Thinking, World

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• This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in a brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Book, Practice, Numbers

  William Strunk Jr. (2015). “Elements of Style”, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Kindness, Imperfection, Enemy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.197, 谷月社

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• Woven through Timothy J. Clark’s paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to create graphic tensions which intrigue beyond the beautifully-painted forms of the subjects.

  Will Barnet

  Unique, Emotional, Light

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• 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

  Blessed, Creativity, Able

  "Robin Trower Interview: Living Out of Time". Interview with Brian Holland, guitarinternational.com. November 17, 2010.

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