Top 831 Contrast Quotes & Sayings

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

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

Color is a major element in scale. A small room can have a larger look by the use of closely related values, hues, and intensity. A large room can be made to look smaller by marked contrasts of color and value, hue, and intensity. Value is one of the most important elements. Whether light or dark, little value contrast makes for unity, and sharper contrast makes for stronger punctuation.

In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.

Beautiful light is born of a contrast to darkness.

My lighting tends to use contrast as a reflection of the stakes in the scene. The higher the stakes, the more I feel I can get away with an exaggerated contrast.

Obama and Clinton make an interesting contrast in brands.

Titus belongs to 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,' Titus Andromedon. Tituss Burgess couldn't be more different. I get how people think I'm one and the same, but I just don't live there. I'm nothing like that man, and whatever I would do wouldn't be in stark contrast just because, but because I'm in stark contrast, it would be different.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Political pendulums swing hard and feed on stark contrast.

One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.

Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois.

I want people to see my unique charm I have in contrast to the other artists.

In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.

I was in a group show at a museum in Torino, a lot of American artists installed in a floor of this museum. Another floor of the museum houses the most refined collection of arte povera in the world, which is perfectly selected and perfectly installed. I remember being struck by the contrast between the Italian works and the American. I would say the hallmarks of the Italian style are a poetical connection to nature and to materiality, materials, and exquisite taste. On contrast, the American work was essentially a bunch of bad-tempered, complaining kids.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.

I like the contrast in making something that sounds sunny but also has an element of melancholy to it.

The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.

A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of them illustrate a collection of gruesome stories, murders and suicides which contrast with the images used. There is a contrast between the message carried by the text and that suppressed by the illustration.

Ideas need to stand out to be noticed. There is so much noisy information out there that if your message is bland, it won't be heard or acted upon. To avoid obscurity, you need to clash with your environment. Incorporating contrast into your presentation will help it stand out. You create contrast by using the presentation form. For example, you can state the problem, then the solution. State an opposing perspective, then your perspective. State the past, then your picture of the future. Adding the cadence of contrast will pull your idea out of obscurity.

I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

It's always nice with two guitarists in one band to have some contrast.

Contrast is the dramatist's method.

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

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

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.

I am conscious that each film I do is in stark contrast to the earlier one.

Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in -- love.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast.

Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying itself in madness, when monotony is forced upon it for too long. ... Contrast gives variety and interest, whether it be in the universe as a whole with its light and darkness, its ceaseless motion and constant change, its creation of worlds and destruction of others.

I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast.

There is a huge contrast between what others think who I am and my real self.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

I love to have contrast.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Elections are about choices, and part of what you do is draw that contrast.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

To keep people interested, your presentation needs to have contrast. As humans we process contrast. We are assessing "what's the same," "what's different," "what's like me," "what's not like me." Humans stay interested if they can process contrast. Varying types of contrast can be used. With content, you can contrast between what is and what could be or between your perspective and alternative perspectives.

I was filming a movie in London, and I drove through Ireland. It was quite beautiful, and the countryside was really remarkable. The contrast between the countryside and Ireland, and the murals there, with Northern Ireland still being a part of the United Kingdom, there's just a stark contrast in those two things. And I found that the art that came out of the conflict was really spectacular because it was about remembering either events or points of view for local neighborhoods, or the rallying cries of one side against the other.

Trump's juvenilia stands in stark contrast to Obama's measured words.

In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.