Quotes About Contrast

Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.

Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.

It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the same objective. Yet Kafka came out with a better world-view.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars.

The depth of my sorrow is the height of my joy.

Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

You can't understand light unless you understand darkness, because that's where life is most often lived - somewhere between the two. It's messy and it's beautiful all at the same time.

'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.

Dark is a way and light is a place, / Heaven that never was / Nor will be ever is always true.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

I own a well-used library card and not much else, though it is true I live in a grand house full of expensive, useless objects.

She had been nobody and he had been golden.

They never go anywhere. Ever. Never see anyone. Now while I've been sick, they went everywhere, saw everyone?

We were warm and shivering, and young and ancient, and alive. (p. 24)

Teníamos calor y temblábamos, Éramos jóvenes y ancianos, Y estábamos vivos.