Contrast Quotes

• The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Innovation, Energy

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• Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.

  Bob Ross

  Dark, Light, Opposites

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• There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

  Charles Dickens

  Strength, Encouraging, Dark

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.648, Pan Macmillan

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• It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.

  Helen Van Wyk

  Dark, Light, Design

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• Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

  Conrad Hall

  Photography, Interesting, Photographer

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• Life really is a series of contrasts.

  George W. Bush

  Series

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• Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying itself in madness, when monotony is forced upon it for too long. ... Contrast gives variety and interest, whether it be in the universe as a whole with its light and darkness, its ceaseless motion and constant change, its creation of worlds and destruction of others.

  Maren Elwood

  Light, Long, Giving

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• There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

  Herman Melville

  Reality, Quality, World

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.55

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• Beautiful light is born of a contrast to darkness.

  Ross Turnbull

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Light

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• The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

  Saadi

  Rose, Sorrow, Together

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• From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance

  Phil Harding

  Summer, Nature, Spring

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• What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

  Sigmund Freud

  Missing You, Wisdom, Children

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• We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.

  Sigmund Freud

  Intense, Made, Enjoyment

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Freud Verbatim”, p.14, The Overlook Press

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• Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.

  Darby Conley

  Appreciate, Sometimes

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• Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Black And White, Color, Green

  Vincent van Gogh, Colta Feller Ives (2005). “Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings”, p.173, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Pleasant

  Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

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• Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Space, Ego, Looks

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• Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Spiritual, Blessed, Adversity

  "Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems".

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• The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Light, Perception, Body

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.120

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• The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

  Bill Vaughan

  Today

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• Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Meals, Contempt

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.93, Palgrave Macmillan

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• What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements.

  Marc Chagall

  Mean, Eye, Psychics

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• Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.

  John C. Maxwell

  Character, Talent, Outstanding

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “Developing the Leader Within You Workbook”, p.219, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

  Hannah Arendt

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Character

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.241, University of Chicago Press

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