Quotes About Contrast

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.

Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren

I live a dual life. On the red carpet, it's complete glam. But at home, I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. Simple can be beautiful.

You know, I use organic products, but I get [laser treatments]. It's what makes life interesting, finding the balance between cigarettes and tofu.

On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know. On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

Life is so unlike theory.

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.

I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.