Tree trunks are composed of layers of growth. Meaningful expressions are composed of layers of words. Say something meaningful.
Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.
Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves. ... Lines give birth to lines. Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. ... Make a drawing flow, stoppin...
Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.
A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.
Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.
If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariab...
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.