Andrea Arnold Quotes

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

Every side of a coin has another side.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.