Matt Hardy Quote

Tree trunks are composed of layers of growth. Meaningful expressions are composed of layers of words. Say something meaningful.

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

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

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

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Those around me persist in not understanding that I have never been able to live in a real world of people and things. And that is why I have this irrefutable need to escape and become involved in adv...