Barbara Hepworth Quotes

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

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

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

Everything contains its antithesis.

There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

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.

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

Every side of a coin has another side.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

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.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

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

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

In life, there's a ying and a yang and a balance. And when you don't have balance, you have comedy.