Quotes About Composition

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry.

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.

Grid systems in graphic design

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.

Design is everything.

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself.

Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.

When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

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

Each artwork requires its own design

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.