#composition

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ↗

— James Thurber

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I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going. ↗

— Robin Trower

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Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem. ↗

— Dexter Gordon

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You have to know composition to be a good improviser. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

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What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. ↗

— Claude Monet

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There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants. ↗

— Arnold Newman

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In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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Improvisation is a compositional method. ↗

— Evan Parker

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