Composition Quotes - Page 15

• Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers, in groups uniquely adapted to sample the energetic states of the world around us: heat, light, force, and chemical composition. That is all we ever know of it directly; all else is logical inference.

  Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle

  Light, Brain, Nerves

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• Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Strong, Taken

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• 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

  Cells, Ravens, Mathematical Equations

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• He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Philosophy, Sleep, Cat

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.670, Delphi Classics

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• In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Dancing, Sculpture

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.158, Souvenir Press

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• When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

  Joseph Addison

  Character, Men, Personality

  Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.571

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• To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.

  Christopher Tunnard

  Garden, Landscape, Plant

  Christopher Tunnard (2014). “Gardens in the Modern Landscape: A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition”, p.117, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  Umberto Eco

  Sadness, Fate, Destiny

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• Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Success, Miscarriage

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• Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment, the amazing complex delicacy of the words, the casual ease with which elemental things come together to form a composition that is—whatever the season, wherever I put my besotted gaze—perfect.

  Bill Bryson

  Perfect, Together, Firsts

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• Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

  Horace Silver

  People, Joy, Musical

  "Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead" by Peter Keepnews, www.nytimes.com. June 18, 2014.

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu.

  Florence King

  Memories, Style, Mind

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• True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

  Florence King

  Memories, Literature, Ephemeral

  "Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye". Book by Florence King, 1989.

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• When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

  Joshua Lederberg

  School, Cells, Trying

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• A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

  Anna Seward

  Acquisition, Attention, Language

  Anna Seward (1810). “The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence”, p.13

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• I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Play, Jazz

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• Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

  Diego Rivera

  Suffering, Very Good, Painter

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• I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

  Jerry Reed

  Guitar, Years, Thankfulness

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• It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Made, Dross

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• All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light. There is no single right way to express yourself. There are infinite possibilities for the use of light with shadows and colors. The decisions you make about composition, movement and the countless combinations of these and other variables is what makes it an art.

  Vittorio Storaro

  Art, Decisions You Make, Light

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• Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

  Brian Eno

  Skeletons, Incompetence, Constraints

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• After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.

  Dave Brubeck

  War, California, Piano

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• I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling.

  Terrance Hayes

  Thinking, People, Expectations

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• The interval, then, between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact, negligible, and the last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. Both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the New Testament may be regarded as finally established.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Integrity, Book, Doubt

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• He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

  Charles Lamb

  Perfection, Mixtures, Matter

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.48

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