#composition

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed. ↗

— Chris Ware

#amount #art #art forms #built #comes

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier. ↗

— Theodore White

#bus #chorus #composition #felt #flew

I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve. ↗

— Lou Harrison

#i #sleeve #tools #want #wear

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#comes #composition #design #drawing #equilibrium

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#end #going #help #i #shoot

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#early #education #four #get #harmony

The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#change #chemical #composition #disposed #fact

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner. ↗

— Alejo Carpentier

#harmony #i #manner #spontaneous #studied

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. ↗

— Paul Klee

#compositions #expression #forms #further #life

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#between #composition #elements #good #harmony