#contrast

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#art #balance #contrast #formal #good

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

— Herman Melville

#exists #itself #merely #nothing #quality

Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been. ↗

— Ruth Ann Minner

#contrast #our #our world #people #state

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#cigarettes #contrast #culture #extra #i

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell. ↗

— Tom Holland

#contrast #evil #good-and-evil #heaven-and-hell #observation

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

#british #british people #call #contrast #democrats

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#classical #consumer #contrast #economic #economic life

There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees. ↗

— Alexander Skarsgard

#always #april #because #between #contrast

There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. ↗

— Bill Skarsgard

#between #contrast #how #i #i love

In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#conferences #contrast #fairness #go #hold