Climene Composition Quotes

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia. ~ Richard Wilbur

My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings. ~ Larry Clark

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything. ~ Richard Powers

A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness. ~ Eric Maisel

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. ~ Karlheinz Stockhausen

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition. ~ Dizzy Gillespie

If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far as genetics go, we're almost identical. The composition of the blood, the immune system, the structure of the brain - almost identical. ~ Jane Goodall

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition ... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over. ~ Socrates

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience. ~ John Carpenter

The right use of color can make any composition work. ~ Fairfield Porter

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles. ~ Voltaire

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles. ~ Horace Silver

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

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition. ~ William Hazlitt

The composition of each epoch depends upon the way the frequented roads are frequented. ~ Gertrude Stein

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

No one has the Houdini school of composition. ~ Morton Feldman

Drawing and composition are the same thing. ~ John French Sloan

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

The act of composition is a series of discoveries. ~ E.L. Doctorow

Composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations. ~ Ned Rorem

A Composition on the Piano ~ Johann Sebastian Bach

In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm. ~ Alton Tobey

To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all. ~ Christopher Tunnard

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence. ~ Neville Cardus

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment. ~ Stephen Nachmanovitch

In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him to describe in fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation. He answered: "In fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation is that in composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in fifteen seconds, while in improvisation you have fifteen seconds." His answer lasted exactly fifteen seconds. ~ Frederic Rzewski

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ~ Florence King

Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning. ~ Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work. ~ Wassily Kandinsky

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

As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts. ~ Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines. ~ Jane Haddam

Ambrose Phillips ... who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby. ~ Thomas B. Macaulay

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

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition. ~ Stephen Gardiner

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

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it. ~ Edwin Land

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

The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with. ~ George Washington

When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work. ~ Mike Svob

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition. ~ Alexander Calder

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few. ~ Denis Diderot

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes ... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition. ~ Kazimir Malevich

Composition is frozen improvisation. ~ Igor Stravinsky

Composition is selective improvisation. ~ Igor Stravinsky

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

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

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

I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative. ~ Elmore Leonard

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

Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous. ~ Henri Marie Ducrotay De Blainville

The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content. ~ Lidia Yuknavitch

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can ... and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting. ~ Larry Clark

At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard. ~ Morton Feldman

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. ~ William Albert Allard

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about. ~ Eric Fischl

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture ... It's palpable. ~ William Shatner

I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition. ~ E. J. Hughes

I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction. ~ Ansel Adams

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition. ~ Dave Grohl

There are certain phrases in books of mine, and I don't know where they came from, or how I was capable of thinking up these formulations. It's only in the heat of composition that these things occur to you. ~ Paul Auster

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

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds. ~ Steve Lacy

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

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ~ James Thurber

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled. ~ Thomas B. Macaulay

It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature. ~ John Ruskin

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

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. ~ Maurice Ravel

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery. ~ Antonio Damasio

When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind. ~ Johannes Kepler

Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of rich dark reds and Lincoln greens against fishscale greys and arctic blues. ~ John Keegan

What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature. ~ Frans Lanting

Music, art, and literature are inseparable for me. How does "composition" evolve in a music and art context? It's a question we can never answer: it only asks for more information and generates more questions. ~ DJ Spooky

Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use. ~ Henri Matisse

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light. ~ Matthew Modine

Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness. ~ Umberto Eco

The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, and writing share certain commonalities of deep composition: spirit, rhythm, thought, and scenery. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition. ~ Matthew Modine

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

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow. ~ Juan Gris

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

The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe. ~ Wassily Kandinsky

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition. (Said to Leopold Mozart) ~ Joseph Haydn

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition. ~ Rohinton Mistry

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

For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to performing. Trying to keep a balance of all those is what I think a director's job is. ~ Mick Garris

Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words
melodic or atonal, safe or daring
and can enhance subject, theme, and style. Every photograph you take involves you in some compositional decision, even if this is simply where to set up the camera or when to press the button. ~ Michael Langford

Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see composition and lighting and do not see their civilization being pissed upon, we are in trouble. ~ Dennis Prager

I may juggle the composition, as the strength of a picture is in the composition. Or I may play with the light. But I never interfere with the subject. The subject has to fall into place on its own and, if I don't like it, I don't have to print it ~ George Rodger

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

In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is easy to be skeptical about whether small anthropogenic changes of atmospheric composition can have important practical impacts. ~ James Hansen

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten. ~ Winston Churchill

Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF and then someone else makes it. It's like instructions for a short story, faxed to every English student who's studying it. ~ Nico Muhly