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• The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

  Anaxagoras

  Life, Science, Greek

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

  Ugo Mochi

  Depth, Silhouettes, Difficult

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• For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and lightly instructing thousands, but gaining none of the prizes, whether of weighty reputation or popular renown, which more fortunate chances, or more pretending modes of investing talent, have given in our day to men of half his merits.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Men, Years, Path

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• If one had to single out the most revolutionary novelty furnished by Qumran, its contribution to our understanding of the genesis of Jewish literary compositions could justifiably be our primary choice.

  Geza Vermes

  Choices, Understanding, Novelty

  "The Dead Sea Scrolls in English". Book by Geza Vermes (Introduction, p. 23), 1962.

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• I will look through 200 photographs of Kate Moss and there will be just one that I connect with for some reason, maybe because of the composition or something in the eye... Something touches me and I know I have to paint it, in the way a child knows it wants something.

  Stella Vine

  Children, Eye, Want Something

  "Stars in her eyes". Hermione Eyre, The Independent on Sunday, July 15, 2007.

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• composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

  Ned Rorem

  Thinking, Distortion, Composer

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.

  Frederick Lenz

  Careers, Design, Meditation

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• My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.

  Frederick Lenz

  Water, Musical, Listening

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• There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Long, Kind

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.43

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• There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.

  Helena Christensen

  Gone, Care, Speed

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

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• A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Race

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• I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.

  Lalo Schifrin

  Writing, Jazz, Easier

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• I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself.

  John Zorn

  Writing, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.

  Gertrude Stein

  Composing

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.516, Vintage

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• The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.

  John Ruskin

  Expression, Dignity, Language

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• Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.

  Berenice Abbott

  Hurt, Self, Understanding

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• 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.

  Myfanwy Pavelic

  Tired, Oil, Design

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• Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.

  Paul Laseau

  Reading, Writing, Creativity

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

  Doug Dawson

  Strong, Truth, Creativity

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• ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mind, Kind, Produce

  Ambrose Bierce (1996). “Poems of Ambrose Bierce”, p.41, U of Nebraska Press

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• Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Keys, Decide Upon

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.123, U of Nebraska Press

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

  Jane Austen

  London, Estimating, Educated

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.34.

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• Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Art, Glasses, Silence

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1998). “Sight-readings: American Fictions”, Random House Incorporated

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• There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.

  Herbert Spencer

  Clear Head, Law, Practice

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Philosophy of Style: An Essay”, p.9

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• The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of.

  Willem de Kooning

  Silly, Light, Idols

  Willem De Kooning, Gagosian Gallery (2004). “De Kooning: a centennial exhibition”

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