Quotes About Contrast

I'd thought there'd be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.

I want to die like my grandfather died . . . peacefully in his sleep. Not like the other three people screaming in the car.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the background.

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.

Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.

When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

He had the face of an angel, but he f**ked like a devil.

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

For dhrames always go by conthraries my dear.

Always having what we wantmay not be the best good fortuneHealth seems sweetestafter sickness, foodin hunger, goodnessin the wake of evil, and at the endof daylong labor sleep.