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• Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. 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

  Art, Attitude, Writing

  "Understanding media: the extensions of man".

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• The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly composition, the noble purity of the lines, the rich plasticity of the form and consequently also the poetry and beauty of the picture, and still more important, its specifically photographic qualities.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Glasses, Appreciate, Quality

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• A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa

  Ambrose Bierce

  Success, Art, Long

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• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Pain, Writing

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

  James Madison

  Federalism, Constitution

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

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• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Inspiration, Thinking, Eclectic Style

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• For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public. Why? Because authority is afraid that people may think of God knows what kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means

  Gordon Cooper

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• Thank you Rob for the honor you have brought to our city with this oustanding composition.

  Rocky Anderson

  Cities, Honor

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• The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

  Gertrude Stein

  Art, Classic, Outlaw

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.496, Northwestern University Press

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• Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

  Brian Eno

  Art, Philosophy, Calling

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• And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

  Joan Collins

  Writing, Acting, Stories

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• 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

  Father, Light, Age

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• Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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• When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that werent ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it.

  Richard Avedon

  Dog, Taken, Home

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• Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Color, Abstract Painting

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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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• It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains, which he himself could never hope to hear.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Talking, Piano

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• Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Differences, Principles

  sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.31

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