Top Composition Quotes
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
Robert Henri
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.
Francis Crick
Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.
Frank Bruno
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
Maurice Ravel
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.
Matthew Modine
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There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.
William Shatner 
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Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.
David Friedman
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From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
James Nasmyth
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In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.
William Albert Allard
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The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
Stephen Gardiner
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I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
Antoine Lavoisier
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What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.
Roscoe Mitchell
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Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
Marshall McLuhan
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
Victor Francis Hess
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I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.
Robin Trower
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