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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.»
«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)
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allows, by luck, composition, compositions, tricks
«Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.»
Author: Horace
(Poet)
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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.»
«Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!»
«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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