Quotes About Composition

Today, Psycho still holds up extraordinarily well (another reason why a remake seems pointless). With the exception of Halloween, no latter-day horror/thriller has been capable of generating as many goosebumps. The black-and-white photography is perfect for the film's tone and mood the starkness of color would have blurred the nightmarish quality. The painstaking care with which [director Alfred] Hitchcock composed every scene is evident in the quality of the final product.

lines and angles, flat and bland, raise these volumes and make them stand.

AM THE GENIUS of myself, the poietes who composes the sentences I speak and the actions I take. It is I, not the mind, that thinks. It is I, not the will, that acts. It is I, not the nervous system, that feels.

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

We need a shape for the tale. A beginning, a middle and an end.

Strophe and counterstrophe reached their epode.

He had had a terribly therapeutic yell at his prisoners and was now feeling quite relaxed and ready for a little callousness. The prisoners sat in Poetry Appreciation chairs—strapped in. Vogons suffered no illusions as to the regard their works were generally held in. Their early attempts at composition had been part of a bludgeoning insistence that they be accepted as a properly evolved and cultured race

Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.

Later I wrote a composition that my grammar teacher Ohara Y?ichi praised as the best since the founding of Keika Middle School. But when I read it over now, it's precious and pretentious enough to make me blush.

How you frame a photo says everything about the story you're trying to tell.

What story does the picture tell?" Lieutenant Tanaka had said to Hideki. "That's what I'm always asking myself. Not just what's happening in the photograph I take, but what happened before it was taken, and what will happen afterward. How you frame a photo says everything about the story you're trying to tell.

It was the same with Chopin's old compatriot Józef Nowakowski, a former composition student of Elsner's at the Warsaw High School for Music, who had planned to travel down to Nohant and be reunited with Chopin.

I like putting things together. The long game. Strategizing. Being able to mix and match personalities of guys.

I compose the music according to the nature of the show. 'Peter Gunn's' focus was violence so that was my key.

In 'Secret Life of Pets,' it's a huge orchestra - really, really big.

I like Philip Glass. I think he's made some really great contributions to his field. I love his style of playing - it's very loop-style.

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame.

A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.