Contrast Effect Quotes

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.

If you're happy all of the time, it's difficult to acknowledge when you actually are happy.

It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.

It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

People aren't expecting me to look how I do. But that's one of the main reasons it works so well: the surprise factor.

My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

At night a candle's brighter than the sun

Apparently on the screen I look tall, ageless, and damned close to omniscient-delivering jeopardy-laden warnings through gritted teeth. But when people see me on the street, they say 'by God, this kid is 5 foot 5, he's got a broken nose, and looks about as foreboding as a bank teller on a lunch break.'

The only thing that mattered to me with 'Xen' was setting things up against each other in an uncomfortable way. If there's a really soft piece of music, and then you're hit by a painful explosive sound, your brain does this funny somersault trying to make sense of why this happened. And at that very moment, your brain is malleable.

I'm not a short person; I'm 5'10 and I was wearing heels, and I felt like a tiny little creature next to Shaquille O'Neal.

How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?

Our industry holds a musical perception about each emotion that we depict in our narrative. As music composers, our job is either to cater to that particular need or give it a contrast that grows on the audience in a way that it begins to sound more universal, than just obvious and expected.

I say that in narrative paintings one should mingle direct contraries close by, because they produce strong contrasts with one another, and all the more so when they are very close together; that is, the ugly next to the beautiful, the big to the small, the old to the young, the strong to the weak; in this way you will vary as much as possible and close by.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.

When I do one thing for a long period of time, my attention is usually then drawn in the opposite direction.

It is only against the pitch blackness of the night that we see the glory of the stars. And it is only against the pitch blackness of man's radical depravity that we can begin to see the glories of the gospel.

There's this one song called 'Final Warning' that I'm really excited about because I love the contrast of my vocal sounding very soothing and my harsh lyrics.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.