Quotes About Composition

Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.

You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment.

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

She said that sometimes she uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.

she uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.

He adored me. And though my paintings terrified him, something in his deep soul allowed him to worship my seeming talent-the deftness of my composition, my vibrant colors, my graceful speed.

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.

Your story is a symphony, not a note.

Everything, everything, everything can be installation art

... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

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.

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

Life is composed of lines of light, fibers of energy, pulsing, still, pure being.

If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.

Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.

I've composed all my life and kept things, and even developed things I've done in college into something now.

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.

When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.

Every piece of music I have composed reminds me of a different time in my life.

We shall see shortly that Bach was to seize on a mutant type of opera that was to serve his purpose when composing the more dramatic of his church cantatas and Passions.

History up to the Renaissance had been something that one composed. History after the Renaissance, informed by methods for work and investigation, was increasingly something that one did.