Quotes About Juxtaposition

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

Poesía es la unión de dos palabras que uno nunca supuso que pudieran juntarse, y que forman algo así como un misterio.

Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.

I am not very extreme in my life. But I'm very attracted to art that works with extremes and works with limits, that transgresses limits and transcends limits and crosses borders and has a certain boldness.

What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it with their situation, all in the service of making a great horror movie. It was fresh.

There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.

I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.

Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?

Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.

like a shaft of coal jutting from a glass of milk.

I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles.

A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Cities are about juxtaposition.

Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?

HUMOR, LIKE METAPHOR, is simply two things placed side by side that don't belong together.

His arrival at the Alamo is one of history's great juxtapositional flukes, as if Teddy Roosevelt or Mark Twain had darted onto the Titanic at the last minute. The man and the place had almost nothing to do with each other, yet their stories would now be forever intertwined.

If heat rises, heaven must be hotter than hell.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.

We lived in Bombay and we lived in Mumbai and sometimes, I lived in both of them at the same time.

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

love, life and everything human seemed small and trifling in such close juxtaposition with an infuriated universe'. (p.309)

It was the first time Oskar had seen this juxtaposition of humans and cattle cars, and it was a greater shock than hearing of it.