Quotes About Contrast

Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung.

Finding beauty in the dissonance.

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.

Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

I learned to see beauty in everything and ugliness in everything. I developed a very honest perspective.

Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

I've been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song. I know it's possible.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.