“The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he does not transgress the laws of probability.” DoeLawArtistPositionSuitsLandscapeRemoveProvidingReservesCompositionProbability Author:Walter J. Phillips
“There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.” LittlesLawImaginationNaturalPracticeClearEarsSensitiveDependentCompositionAcquaintanceAptitudeRhetoricalClear Head Book:Philosophy of Style: An Essay Source: Philosophy of Style: An Essay