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We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that the cafe is a place where one can ruin oneself, become crazy and criminal.
Through the contrast of the delicate pink, blood red and dark red, of mild Louis XV and Veronese gr
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.
Nothing exists in itself.
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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.
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!
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