Quotes About Contrast

I like to get away from noise, although I will play noisy music in my car to keep myself awake. But my ears need a rest sometimes. I do enjoy listening to classical music.

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.

The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.