Contrast quotes

Discover contrasting quotes that inspire, challenge, and provoke thought. Explore the beauty found in the juxtaposition of ideas and emotions on our quote website's Contrast category.

As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate.

- John Dykstra

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

- Charles Dickens

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

- Agnes Repplier

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

- Elvis Costello

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

- Edmund Husserl

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

- Paul D. Boyer

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

- C. S. Forester

Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image.

- John Dykstra

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

- Leon Kass

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

- Conrad Hall

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

- Victor Hugo

The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

- Sally Ride

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

- Clarence Budington Kelland

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

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

- Gustav Stresemann

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

- Jim Harrison