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Composition Quotes (page 4)

When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind. Johannes Kepler
I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition. Joseph Haydn
Samuel Johnson quote: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a..."
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. Samuel Johnson
But where the ideas of morality and decency alter from one age to another, and where vicious manners are described, without being marked with the proper character of blame and disapprobation, this must be allowed to disfigure the poem, and to be a real deformity. I cannot, nor is it proper I should, enter into such sentiments; and however I may excuse the poet, on account of the manners of age, I can never relish the composition. David Hume
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers, 'must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity. Roland Barthes
I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition. Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is true that historic Christianity is in conflict at many points with the collectivism of the present day; it does emphasize, against the claims of society, the worth of the individual soul. It provides for the individual a refuge from all the fluctuating currents of human opinion, a secret place of meditation where a man can come alone into the presence of God. It does give a man courage to stand, if need be, against the world; it resolutely refuses to make of the individual a mere means... John Gresham Machen
Oswald: Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not. Kent: Fellow, I know thee. Oswald: What dost thou know me for? Kent: A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy; worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward,... William Shakespeare
Human lives are conmposed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of an individual's life. Milan Kundera
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. Norton Juster
Arthur Murphy quote: "Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the..."
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. Arthur Murphy
I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music. Robert Morris
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. Rick Moody
Claude Monet quote: "No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head..."
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. Claude Monet
So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light. Matthew Modine

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