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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
(Aaron Copland)

A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.
(Eric Maisel)

The diagonal gives energy to a composition. To jumble and tweak the balance is my spice of preference.
(Gail Siptak)

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.
(Ansel Adams)