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For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.

— Roman Jakobson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

— Conrad Hall

During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.

— Joshua Foer

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

— Mahmoud Darwish

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

— Voltaire

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.

— Bill Sienkiewicz

I don't deal in terminology, I deal with expressions: colors, shapes, tones, characteristics.

— Savion Glover

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

— Edvard Munch

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

— Robert Delaunay

✗Opposing Perspectives

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

— Joseph Joubert