50 Quotes About Composition

Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.

While [Frank H.] Young added, 'In a good modern layout the principles of all good layout still prevail . . . cohesion, legibility, movement, emphasis, simplicity, and continuity.

When composition is good, you don’t really notice it, but you definitely notice when compositional elements are ignored. An artwork will seem unsuccessful or ‘wrong’ to you, even if you don’t know why.

the composition of each epoch depends upon the way the frequented roads are frequented.

Vous êtes là comme une chrysalide enfermée dans la flamme, jusqu’à ce que votre âme monte au soleil d’un vol rapide.

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge, each line adds strength and takes none away. Thus a work of art is finished from the beginning, as Whistler has said. If there are only ten lines, then they are the ten lines which comprehend the most. Composition is the freedom of a thing to be its greatest best by being in its right place in the organization. It is a just sense of the relation of things.