Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer
"A Composition on the Piano"
Composition quotes
Composition
47 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"The composition of a tragedy requires testicles."
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another."
Denis Diderot
Philosopher, Writer
"One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"How much finer things are in composition than alone."
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