Composition Quotes - Page 27

• There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. 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. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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• Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Music, Style, May

  1938 In Downbeat, Aug.

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• When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Tunes, Jazz

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• What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Shooting, Helping

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• The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Falling In Love, Negative

  "Stages on Life's Way" by Søren Kierkegaard, Hong, (p. 111), April 30, 1845.

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