Top 25 Composition Quotes of 47

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

Brigitte Bardot

Body, Decomposition, Whole Life

A Composition on the Piano

Johann Sebastian Bach

Science, Piano, Composition

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

James Madison

Federalism, Constitution, Composition

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.179

The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.

Wassily Kandinsky

Function, Organized, Composition

Wassily Kandinsky (1982). “Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art: 1922-1943”

Composition is selective improvisation.

Igor Stravinsky

Improvisation, Composition, Selective

When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out.

Harvey Dunn

Matter, Feels, Composition

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

Edward Weston

Technique, Way, Composition

Edward Weston (1961). “Daybooks”

Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Decomposition, Form, Inevitable

Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.410, Routledge

One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.

Robert Genn

Interesting, Elements, Composition

My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.

Larry Clark

Lessons, Painting, Composition

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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. Lovecraft

Fields, Aptitude, Composition

H. P. Lovecraft (2001). “The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories”, p.357, Penguin

Composition has almost always been solitary.

Wendy Carlos

Solitary, Composition

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

Voltaire

Tragedy, Testicles, Composition

When asked 'why no woman has ever written a tolerable tragedy', in a letter from Lord Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

Neville Cardus

Genius, Incarnation, Composition

"Ten Composers". Book by Neville Cardus, August 1944.

The right use of color can make any composition work.

Fairfield Porter

Color, Use, Composition

In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.

Swami Vivekananda

Perfect, Balance, Decomposition

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.98, editionNEXT.com