Quotes About Composition

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

Even in front of nature one must compose.

Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

We are nothing but a few atoms arranged in an intricate organized way.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

All that is not prose passes for poetry.

The artist has the master picture in his mind, before he begins to paint.

Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they are treated as independent disciplines, it seems valid. Actually, the are derivatives of a single origin and in the skillful employment of words and images lies the expressive potential of the medium.

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving...

All historians agree that the gospels were written down and circulated during the first generation after the events, while the eyewitnesses were still alive. In order for the gospels to be legendary at their core, more generations would be needed between the events they record and the date of their composition.

Nothing is more beautiful than an organized width, and nothing is worse than an unorganized lapidary.

You better go to someone else for words. All I know is, there are some drums that sound good together and some that don't. I think we sound good together.