Quotes About Contrast

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.

I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.

We comes from God, I from the Devil.

The devil is God's ape!

And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.

Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

God made nightButMan made darkness.

In the land of God's and Monsters, I was an angel looking to get f-ked hard.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

The tendency of the world is down - God's path is up.

March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.

The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.

The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious

I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.