Quotes About Composition

Architecture is art, nothing else.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

If you do not bother to take the time to compose and to light properly, then you end up with something almost less than reality. You end up without the soul, the heart, the art of the moment.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

Art is nothing without form.

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.