110 Contrasting Quotes
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If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse. — Michael Craig-Martin
Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning. — Bob Ross
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. — Carl Jung
I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy. — Catherine Malandrino
In black and white you suggest, in color you state. — Paul Outerbridge
In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors. — Helmut Newton
Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE. — Tristan Tzara
It’s not about getting over things, it’s about making room for them. It’s about painting the picture with contrast. — Brianna Wiest
. . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, splintered surgances . . . . Is this not form? — Giacomo Puccini
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. — Charles Dickens
Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience. — Peter Schjeldahl
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. — Antonio Gaudi
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony. — Heraclitus
Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive. — Elliott Erwitt
Short Contrasting Quotes
- We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live. — Axl Rose
- The one who’s only tasted sweet cannot describe sourness. — Icelandic Proverbs
- The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements. — Jan Tschichold
- PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast. — Ambrose Bierce
- The presence of fools makes wise people stand out. — Japanese Proverbs
- The sun that melts the wax is the same that hardens the mud. — Icelandic Proverbs
- In contrast, if you’re able to not give a fuck about the pain, you become unstoppable. — Mark Manson
- There are hardships and there are delights. — Japanese Proverbs
- Two happy days are seldom brothers. — Bulgarian Proverbs
- Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed. — Edgar Allan Poe
Color Contrast Quotes
Matchy-matchy is not for me. I don't want things to be too perfect. It's like pairing a matte top with a shiny skirt, so they play off each other. I want there to be relationships with texture and color, and sometimes it's more about the contrast that chimes. — Peter Som
I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark. — August Macke
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. — Voltaire
An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him. — Charles E. Burchfield
The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color. — Susanne Katherina Langer
Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image. — John Dykstra
Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance. — Vincent Van Gogh
As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate. — John Dykstra
Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration. — Van Day Truex
Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow. — George Eliot
Life Contrast Quotes
A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. — Howard Zahniser
The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference. — Edward T. Hall
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other. — Deepak Chopra
What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements. — Marc Chagall
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. — Richard Dawkins
Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering. — David Lynch
All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive. — Stedman Graham
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. — Simone de Beauvoir
Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Compare And Contrast Quotes
I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies. — Kevin Gates
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion, compassion, intuition, and irrational thinking. — Grey Owl
I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful. — T. S. Eliot
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for something when you compare and contrast it to something worse. — John Steinbeck
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness. — Carl Jung
To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better! — Ursula K. Le Guin
Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy. — William Hazlitt
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control. — Alice Hamilton
Saudi Arabia stammering worldwide terrorism! Yeah, but Donald Trump went there and tackled it. You compare this to Barack Obama's mindless twaddling, whatever it was, the Cairo speech that no can still tell you what he said. The contrast is striking to me. — Rush Limbaugh
Three great ways to lose a lover: Talk to him the way your mother talked to your father. Berate him in public because everybody loves an audience. Contrast him to your friends, and compare him with his predecessors. — Perry Brass
Comparison Quotes
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence. — Alfred Wegener
I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what I see. I don't accept things at face value, you cannot trust what you hear or see. Don't jump to conclusions without thinking. — Mahathir Mohamad
I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them. — Thomas Harris
We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose. — Bob Goff
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. — Alan Watts
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. — Alexandre Dumas
Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable. — Joe Paterno
Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. — Gordon Parks
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More Contrasting Quotes
The closer you come to Jesus, the more faulty you will appear in your own eyes; for your vision will be clearer, and your imperfections will be seen in broad and distinct contrast to His perfect nature. — Ellen G. White
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. — Margaret Mead
You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people. — David Lynch
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives. — Arthur C. Brooks
Bottom line - cosmetics are used to accentuate an existing sex difference in facial contrast. This does not mean that women engage in this beautification practice with knowledge of this sexual dimorphism. — Gad Saad
Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder. — Samuel Johnson
The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other. — Mahathir Mohamad
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions. — Sigmund Freud
Sunny days wouldn't be so special if it wasn't for rain. Joy wouldn't feel so good if it wasn't for pain. — 50 Cent
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. — Sigmund Freud
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
By contrast, Dresher and Flood found that the minority of game players who refused to testify against their criminal partner were almost always of the liberal persuasion. These individuals were willing to put themselves at risk in order to get the best possible outcome for both themselves and a colleague – just a single year’s jail time. — Annie Jacobsen
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast. — Jim Harrison
Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude understood only when we have been without it. We cannot separate ourselves from society, comradeship, sharing and love. Unless we can contribute something from wilderness experience, derive some solace or peace to share with others, then the real purpose is defeated. — Sigurd F. Olson
The contrast between northern and southern Europe is also at least partially attributable to the fact that the south has fewer coastal plains suitable for agriculture, and has suffered more from drought and natural disasters than the north. The arable land and waterways of the North European Plain which stretches from France to Russia enables crops and other goods to be produced and moved easily. — Tim Marshall
The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities. — Jordan Peterson
I could not help staring back, for they made quite a contrast: Kate's pale skin and elegant purple suit, Nadira's dusky skin and exotic fiery sari. "Do we clash?" Nadira said dryly. "We certainly do," said Kate. "Would you like me to move?" "Don't trouble yourself. — Kenneth Oppel
I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up. — James David Vance
There is no recipe for good layout, what must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast. A layout man should be simple with good photographs. He should perform acrobatics when the pictures are bad. — Alexey Brodovitch
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength. — Carol Gilligan
To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain. In contrast, if you’re able to not give a fuck about the pain, you become unstoppable. — Mark Manson
From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance — Phil Harding
In contrast to how tech firms want to disrupt and break things - developing drugs must be incremental and step-by-step. — Vivek Ramaswamy
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien
Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners in the theatrical setting of a major speech. — Ian Kershaw
Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others. — Judith M Bardwick
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