Quotes about Composition

I want to reach that state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

RULE 3. SET FORTH THE MAJOR PARTS OF THE BOOK, AND SHOW HOW THESE ARE ORGANIZED INTO A WHOLE, BY BEING ORDERED TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO THE UNITY OF THE WHOLE.

The parts of fiction are the various steps that the author takes to develop his plot—the details of characterization and incident.

You can make anything by writing.

When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.

It is not easy to properly position and structure a book, not to mention to do the actual writing.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

To begin at the beginning is, next to ending at the end, the whole art of writing; as for the middle you may fill it in with any rubble that you choose.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

The father's touching the son is an everlasting blessing; the son resting against his father's breast is an eternal peace. Christian Tümpel writes: "The moment of receiving and forgiving in the stillness of its composition lasts without end. The movement of the father and the son speaks of something that passes not, but lasts forever.

Death is such as generation is, a mystery of nature; a composition out of the same elements, and a decomposition into the same;