Quotes About Contrast

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed

If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.