Contrasting Elements Quotes

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.

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

The truth is that every single relationship is very complex and full of contradictions; as you get into a more mature relationship, you realize that the contrasts are part of the fabric of every substantive relationship.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.

It was crazy how a hearse and a pair of sneakers could cheer a guy up.

Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.

...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.

Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.

How do you make something the same but different? That's the question I had to deal with in my approach to the cover painting for 'Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes.' I wanted it to have many similarities to 'Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,' but I knew they couldn't be too similar.

If I've made something really serene... well, if everything is like that, it's like having too much icing on your cake. You need something else under it, some kind of grounding. It's like if you're making a film, you can't have only happy moments, or else they become meaningless.

It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.

On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.

Contrast is the dramatist's method.

There's something comic about the town. You have the spot where the Pilgrims landed -- and right next to it a giant motel. I've always loved that. There's the very spirit of America expressing itself!

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.