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«A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.»
Author: Dimitri Shostakovich | About: Art | Keywords: artist, composition, compositions, creative, creative work, previous, satisfied, works
«Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.»
Author: Edward Weston | Keywords: composition, compositions, consulting, gravity, law of gravity, photograph, Rules of, The Rules
«My compositions deserve the medal, not me.»
Author: Elliot T. Carter | About: Writing | Keywords: compositions
«At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Keywords: composition, compositions, Dictionaries, distraction, distractions, grammars
«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»
Author: Marshall McLuhan (Educator, Social Reformer, Writer) | Keywords: A.D., composition, compositions, editorials, features, go into, magazine, newspaper, prominent
«Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: allows, by luck, composition, compositions, tricks
«Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | Keywords: compositions, in the public eye, literary composition, public eye, The Public Eye
«Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: compositions, passage
«Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: composition, compositions
«A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: aspire, automaton, automatons, clerical, compositions, contemptible, coverings, divinity, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastics, fleecy, full dress, General A, go-cart, hosiery, pasteboard, piece of work, prig, prigs, wax, wax figure
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