"Beauty requires contrast." — John Gardner

Beauty requires contrast. - John Gardner

"Beauty requires contrast."

— John Gardner

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42 Quotes by John Gardner

John Gardner has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure…
The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways…
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might…
Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the…
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the…
I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with…
Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.
There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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