Composition Quotes - Page 21

• People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Art, Thinking, People

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• The structure of the company is constantly changing. The composition of the necessary working groups is constantly changing. We have many divisions that are based on the project principle, which means that they are put together for each project.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Mean, Together, Principles

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

  Stephen Sondheim

  Light, Order, White

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• At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

  Alan Greenspan

  Jobs, Skills, Risk

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• We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked in a remote past in a dying star. The waters of ancient seas set the pattern of ions in our blood. The ancient atmospheres moulded our metabolism.

  George Wald

  Stars, Past, Ions

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• The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the natural order and human experience as were current in their days, and in a language that was common to themselves and their contemporaries. This is saying no more than that they wrote to be understood. Their picture of the world and things in it is not put forward as normative for later science, andy more than their use of Hebrew and Greek is put forward as a perfect model for composition in these languages.

  J. I. Packer

  Biblical, Men, Order

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• We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Signatures, Want, Painting

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• 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

  Government, Order, Needs

  The Economist interview, www.economist.com. March 11, 2010.

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• The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.

  Loretta Lux

  Digital, Backgrounds, Finished

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• I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.

  William Klein

  Photography, Cutting, Self

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• I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

  Ralph Gibson

  Want, Shapes, Abstract

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• The culture of suppressing women composers and performers goes centuries back in Germany and other countries. Just think of Fanny Mendelssohn and the struggles she and many other women had to endure to get their music recognized. How many women's compositions were left to languish in attics, only to be thrown out by future generations! So much has been lost over the centuries.

  Barbara Harbach

  Country, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.barbaraharbach.com

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• For my qualifying concert, Helmut Walcha would not coach Charles-Marie Widor or any American compositions. In his defense, his forte was Germanic composers, and his forte was really a fortissimo!

  Barbara Harbach

  Composer, Coaches

  Source: www.barbaraharbach.com

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• Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Reality, Perfection, Sensual

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• 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.

  Doug Aitken

  Simple, Ideas, Used

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• Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.

  Stephen King

  Morning, Naps, Afternoon

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• I have been blessed with some incredible compositions to record and perform and all of my songs have had the ability to grow as I and those who have supported this career of mine for these 50 years have.

  Dionne Warwick

  Song, Blessed, Years

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• I know that the materials found on the streets is rich and wonderful, but my experience is that the way I am accustomed to work, slowly planning my composition etc. is not suited for such work. By the time I have the composition or expression right, the picture is gone. I guess I want to do the impossible and therefore I do nothing.

  Tina Modotti

  Expression, Gone, Want

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• One of the principals of composition, I would say, in fiction, is you want to do what you can do a lot of. You want to do what you're enthusiastic about and what rings your bell. In this case, almost every decision I made was on that basis.

  George Saunders

  Decision, Enthusiastic, Rings

  "George Saunders: It's All About Suckage-Avoidance". Interview With Doug Polisin, www.audible.com. March 15, 2017.

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• Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Composer

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Thinking, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.149, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Children, Book, Vocabulary

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• My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and plot. If I see a theme emerging in a story I will likely take it up and develop it. I hardly ever set out with a conscious plan and if I do the story usually takes over and takes me where it wants to go.

  Clarence Major

  Character, Conscious, Changed

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I knew that, without killing the creative mood, I had to keep the balance between my emotional outburst and the merciless discipline of a super-personal control, thus submitting myself ti the self-imposed law of dance composition

  Mary Wigman

  Emotional, Self, Law

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• The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.

  Tacitus

  Science, Grace, Concerned

  Cornelius Tacitus (1872). “The Works of Tacitus: The Oxford Translation, Revised. with Notes”, p.439

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