Composition Quotes

Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

Trees are affected by many factors. Global warming is changing rainfall, humidity, air composition, solar radiation, heating and cooling. Plants are sensitive to any of these factors. When all of the factors start to change at once, it may lead to devastation in the plant world.

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

...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15)

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, stopping sometimes, and going on. ... Search for the simple constructive forces, line the lines of a suspension bridge. Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out. ... Have purpose in the places where lines stop.

pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." Marisol

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