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“The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.”
Paul Klee quotes (Swiss Artist, 1879-1940)

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“An old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.”
Horace quotes (Ancient Roman Poet. 65 BC-8 BC)
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“My compositions deserve the medal, not me.”
Elliot T. Carter quotes
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“Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.”
Edmund Burke quotes (British Statesman and Philosopher, 1729-1797)
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“A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.”
William Hazlitt quotes (British Writer, best known for his humanistic essays. 1778-1830)

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“Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials”
Marshall McLuhan quotes (Canadian communications theorist Educator, Writer and Social Reformer, 1911-1980)

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“A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.”
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“Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.”
Edward Gibbon quotes (English Historian, 1737-1794)

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“Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.”
Edward Weston quotes
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“Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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“Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.”
Walt Whitman quotes ( Poet, 1819-1892)
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“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quotes (English poet, political thinker, and feminist 1806-1861)

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“Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

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“Vices enter into the composition of virtues as poison into that of medicines. Prudence collects and blends the two and renders them useful against the ills of life.”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)

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“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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