Counterpoint Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth… — Mike Figgis
The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint.… — John Jay Chapman
True love is your souls recognition of its counterpoint in another. — Owen Wilson
Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat… — Lewis B. Smedes
Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint. — Thomas Beecham
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence --… — Lewis H. Lapham
Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to… — Pete Seeger
A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us… — Robert Penn Warren
I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives… — Karen O
As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience,… — David Shi
Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development of… — Hans Hofmann
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. — Anish Kapoor
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions,… — Hans Hofmann
Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher… — Dan Simmons
Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism. — Twyla Tharp
Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding… — Robert Wilson
The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a… — Charles Hazlewood
True love is the soul's recognition of its counterpoint in another — Claire Clearly

Who Wrote These Counterpoint Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 19 Counterpoint Quotes as follows: