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.
The act of composition is a series of discoveries.
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.
For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.
It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth.
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.
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations.
My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.
A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
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.
In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.
I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.
Even in front of nature one must compose.
What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature.