Quotes About Composition

The earliest compositions for instruments alone date from the thirteenth century. These were performed at courtly functions. We hear of a fourteenth-century concert by an orchestra with thirty-six kinds of instruments.

The study of molecular structure attempts to get at precisely the physical constituents of molecules.

The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author

It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as a source for 11th-century Scottish politics would rather miss the point of the play, and the same is true of the Homeric epics.

Ron seemed an ideal choice to create the arrangements on 'Atom Heart Mother'. He understood the technicalities of composition and arranging, and his ideas were radical enough to steer us away from the increasingly fashionable but extremely ponderous rock orchestral works of the era.

Though the heroes and their fates are inventions, yet the spirit in which they are composed is true and natural.

A partner must be biologically interesting, attractive to us, and you are fascinating. You are horror and beauty in rare combination. In a very real way, you've captured us, and we can't escape. But you're more than only the composition and the workings of your bodies. You are your personalities, your cultures.

Sometimes it's as if I'm composed of nothing but symptoms of illness, I am a phantom built out of pain.

One writer excels at a plan or a title page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles.

Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in this world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people.

a ship could be built entirely from foreign planks, but it must have its own form

Whatever I tried to write was verse.

You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

A story can be composed solely of (1) one action, (2) one emotion to be evoked, and (3) a one-sentence summary. Don't get lost rambling, and also make sure your listener feels that they are fully participating in the conversation.

I rationalized that there are only so many notes and therefore only so many combination of notes, so it stood to reason that there are so many songs.

One way God establishes beauty is by putting things that are different next to each other.

There are three things needed to be a great photographer. In this order. You and your keen eye, a great lens and a camera to make the shot.

This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

Private, visual reading and private composition thus encouraged individual critical thinking and contributed ultimately to the development of skepticism and intellectual heresy.

La perfection du juste est formée de la bonne composition des sept péchés capitaux, comme la lumière blanche de la composition des sept couleurs traditionnelles. »

Reading does not occupy me enough: the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift me above the stormy mist of sensations which are my habitual place of abode. I have lately been composing a poem on Keats; it is better than anything I have yet written and worthy both of him and of me.