quotes about Composition
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I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.
-- Alejo Carpentier -
I don't listen to much modern composition.
-- Colin GreenwoodSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.
-- David Tudor -
I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
-- Dizzy Gillespie -
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The act of composition is a series of discoveries.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
-- Edward Weston -
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.
-- Edwin Land -
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The right use of color can make any composition work.
-- Fairfield Porter -
An entire composition written in jazz could not live.
-- George Gershwin -
The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
-- Gertrude Stein -
There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.
-- H. P. LovecraftSource : H. P. Lovecraft (2005). “H. P. Lovecraft: Tales”, p.1129, Library of America
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When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out.
-- Harvey Dunn -
Drawing and composition are the same thing.
-- John French Sloan -
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The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions.
-- Mike Svob -
No one has the Houdini school of composition.
-- Morton Feldman -
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A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.
-- Neville CardusSource : "Ten Composers". Book by Neville Cardus, August 1944.
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Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.
-- Richard WilburSource : Richard Wilbur, William Butts (1990). “Conversations with Richard Wilbur”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability...
-- Robert Genn -
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
-- Robert Genn -
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Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
-- Robert Genn -
You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
-- Robert Schumann -
Thank you Rob for the honor you have brought to our city with this oustanding composition.
-- Rocky Anderson -
The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.
-- Wassily Kandinsky -
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
-- Wendy Carlos -
For my qualifying concert, Helmut Walcha would not coach Charles-Marie Widor or any American compositions. In his defense, his forte was Germanic composers, and his forte was really a fortissimo!
-- Barbara HarbachSource : Source: www.barbaraharbach.com
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My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.
-- Larry ClarkSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.
-- Loretta Lux -
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I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.
-- Yoshi Wada -
That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."
-- Nick Laird -
You have to know composition to be a good improviser.
-- Roscoe Mitchell