Bob Ross Quotes

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

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.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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

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

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

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

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

You can't have something without nothing.

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.

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.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.