Paul Valery Quotes

It's very nice to do a little bit of the darkness after a little bit of the lightness. Variety is the spice of life. I enjoy both, and hopefully, I will be able to do as big a variety as I possibly can.

Light matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

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.

It's easy to be heavy; hard to be light.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

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.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

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

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

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

I just like to have one foot in Montana and one foot out.

Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.