Artistic Composition Quotes

Every art I do is a collage.

The impressionistic method leads into a complete splitting and dissolution of all areas involved in the composition, and color is used to create an overall effect of light. The color is, through such a shading down from the highest light in the deepest shadows, sacrified an degraded to a (black-and-white) function. This leads to the destructions of the color as color.

Family photos, pictures of groups, those are truely wonderful. And they are just as good as the old masters, just as rich and just as beautifully composed (what does that mean anyway).

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.

It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

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.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual.

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

Music is the medium. Words merely enhance the composition.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.