Quotes About Composition

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

Security and care of the objects is paramount. Arty composition comes after everything is safe from greasy fingers, humidity or excess light.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective.

When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

To get the xs to compose something, one need only bring them into contact; if the xs are in contact, they compose something; and if they are not in contact, they do not compose anything.

I have found it helpful to ask not 'In what circumstances is a plank a part of a ship?' but, rather, 'In what circumstances do planks compose (add up to, form) something?

In terms of the structure of the

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

I'm a very visual person when it comes to writing music. I like to see something besides just a script, even if it's just a storyboard or pictures from the set.

How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth.

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.