Composition and Structure
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Famous quotes containing the words composition and, composition and/or structure:
“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seems as absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”
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“A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.”
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