70 Juxtaposition Quotes
Following is our list of juxtaposition quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about examples of juxtaposition.
Famous Juxtaposition Quotes
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
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like. — Don Delillo
What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together — Paul Smith
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together. — George McWhirter
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. — Socrates
I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy. — Catherine Malandrino
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. — Susan Sontag
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
Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition. — Max Ernst
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. — Niels Bohr
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony. — Heraclitus
Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE. — Tristan Tzara
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 most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. — Andy Warhol
Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them. — Max Ernst
Short Juxtaposition Quotes
- Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. — Learned Hand
- The joy of juxtaposition is endless. — Peter B. Lewis
- Cities are about juxtaposition. — Richard Rogers
- Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet. — Arthur Hugh Clough
- Justice is juxtaposition in us Justice for all just ain't specific enough. — Common
- I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition. — Tairrie B
- The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question. — David Mamet
- I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast. — Sarah Barthel
- My mind is like a gyre and odd juxtapositions happen. — Ruth Ozeki
- What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea. — David Mamet
People Writing About Juxtaposition
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Max Ernst |
20 | 459 |
 David Mamet |
184 | 720 |
 Michael Craig-Martin |
73 | 353 |
 Don Delillo |
329 | 749 |
 Paul Smith |
61 | 320 |
 Socrates |
449 | 10345 |
More Juxtaposition Quotes
To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film. — Edward Zwick
The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms. — Dick Morris
I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s. — Wim Wenders
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. — Alfred North Whitehead
Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me! — Keith Urban
I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody. — Rufus Wainwright
I like having that juxtaposition where you can have a very triumphant sounding song and then throw in all this crazy imagery. That's part of the fun of writing, you know? — Brendon Urie
Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines. — Nicholas Negroponte
I had seen the ballet of Swan Lake as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years. — Walter Dean Myers
To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions. — Corita Kent
To me, you can't have style without being inspired. When I design a collection, I am inspired by so many things. The color of a flower. The shape of a butterly's wing. The juxtaposition of an old tenement building next to a shiny new skyscraper. — Isaac Mizrahi
An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using superimposition, juxtaposition and other contextual changes, I am functioning as a visual guerrilla. — Robert Heinecken
When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows - literally unforgettable because you remember every picture, every wall and every juxtaposition. — Charles Saatchi
I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it. — Eugene Chadbourne
The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition. — Gregory Maguire
The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities. The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be - the greater its emotional power and poetic reality.. — Pierre Reverdy
The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement. — William S. Burroughs
Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable. — Pat Metheny
I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much. — Jonah Hill
The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtapositionas making a spark requires two things struck together. — Jane Hirshfield
Collage – SS13 offers a very controlled and pure do-it-yourself attitude. The collection shows a juxtaposition of very different materials, prints and colours, therefore giving the wearer a possibility to combine the garments in different ways. — Raf Simons
South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor. — Rory Carroll
['Dad's Army' show]was a military thing but also very funny, so it's kind of the two things that I experienced by being a soldier, and I found it very humorous then and there, because of the juxtapositions [and] me and my emotional state. — Rhys Darby
I've always had this juxtaposition of characters, because I'm an artist. I'm a very quiet person at home and introspective and the whole deal, and then I can be really big later. I had no problem. — Terry Crews
What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared now to looking for, or to watching out for, the image that attracts my attention or the phrase or the strange juxtaposition that strikes me bodily, or an odd question or supposition. — Pattiann Rogers
There's a lot of situations where I feel irony involved when R&B and hip-hop is expressed in the indie worlds. There's a lot of times when I feel like the juxtaposition becomes a thing. — Solange Knowles
Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to create a musical work. All one thing is a bore - all dissonance, or all fatuous consonance. George Winston and Guns and Roses are two sides of the same worthless coin in my esthetic world. — Chuck Israels
Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary — Richelle Mead
I grew up in a very responsible, social, Democratic community, and destruction was a bad word. But, in California, destruction is a rad word. The juxtaposition of the two is really what made me into who I am today, in my battles with how fun it is to be bad, and how wrong it is to be bad. — Rie Rasmussen
The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition. — Lorde
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. — Alfred North Whitehead
Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition? — Arthur Hugh Clough
I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else. — Ted Dexter
We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster. — Marianne Williamson
I'm not really sure what the psychology is, but for me, I'm interested in it because it's such a juxtaposition to what is going on in my life with a newborn, as you can see. So because of that juxtaposition I'm really fascinated by it, but I'm equally terrified by it, and I think that diving in it makes me feel safer as a woman and a mother for some reason. — Teresa Palmer
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