Quotes About Contrast

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.

That icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.

Peppercorn is black and so is the beauty mark of the moon-faces -both rend the heart, yet between them lie enormous spaces

There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.

...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.

The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.