You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.
A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.
One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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.
A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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.
I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.
I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.
Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.
A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition.
Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.
My religion lies in my composition.
When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out.
In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.
As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.