“I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.” FirstsMayMatterFoundToo MuchConcernEdgesReactionsRecognitionConventionalComposition Author:Ansel Adams
“A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.” MayLinesTakenPaintingLandscapeMake SenseCompositionIgnoredLandscape Painting Author:Walter J. Phillips
“In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.” MayPaintingPerfectionStudiosCompositionArrangements Author:Walter J. Phillips
“When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it helps the general composition.” IfsMayHelpingEffectsPerspectivePrimitiveComposition Author:E. J. Hughes
“Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition.” IfsMenMayEnoughTurnsWomenExtraordinaryBoundsSakeViolentReputationVanityMeritSparksModestyCompositionProprietyScruplesGallantryCoquette Author:William Hazlitt
“On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend.” BelieveMayWholeValuesI BelieveSubjectsPoetEvidenceTreatsLaysHistoricalProofConclusionCraftsAttractiveRegionsExpensesLegendsCompositionDisturbedExaggerationHistorical Value Book:History of Greece Source: History of Greece