#contrast

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. ↗

#glaring #look #poverty #revolution #soon

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can. ↗

— Maurice Baring

#contrast #does #genius #mozart #must

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#age #away #contrasted #death #destiny

I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features. ↗

— Rita Ora

#being #between #blonde #contrast #dark

Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right. ↗

— Libba Bray

#beauty

It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, harsh, and violent catacomb of stone an steel and tunneled rock, slashed savagely with light, and roaring, fighting a constant ceaseless warfare of men and of machinery; and yet it was so sweetly and so delicately pulsed, as full of warmth, of passion, and of love, as it was full of hate. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#city #contrasts #new-york #new-york-city #love

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#contrast #even #everything #little #need

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

— Leon Kass

#cloned #cloning #contrast #product #reproduction

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

— Scott Walker

#contrast #could #illinois #more #stark

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast. ↗