Best Light And Shadow Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We don't always want the light to touch us! Sometimes shadows, sometimes dimness and sometimes pitch darkness should touch us so that we long for the light!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“NO LIGHT WITHOUT SHADOW AND NO SHADOW WITHOUT LIGHT”

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Author:J. Lepika

“The estimation of an artist's talent is often based on his ability to render both light and shadow. If you have any choice in the matter, spend your time seeking the former.”

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Book:The Gravity of Birds

Source: The Gravity of Birds

“If there is only shadow on a theatre stage, that play will be boring; if there is only light on a theatre stage, that play will be boring! What makes the play interesting is the struggle of shadows and lights with each other!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Whenever I think about that week's vacation in ........., I picture a shimmering stretch of snow and sunshine reaching into the dark recesses of January. No doubt because our primitive memory chooses to portray the past as a basic juxtaposition of light and shade, day and night.”

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Book:Happening

Source: Happening

“When your light touches my shadow, my silence begins to bloom.”

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Book:THE PULSE OF THE UNISOUL VOLUME-I

Source: THE PULSE OF THE UNISOUL VOLUME-I

“It was ridiculous to cast my shadow over her light. The bee girl didn’t know what it was like to wonder if she even had a soul, or if the emptiness inside was merely a sign that her soul was rotten. She had honey in her veins, not death. Not rot. Not like me.”

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Book:Honey in Her Veins

Source: Honey in Her Veins

“He didn't know what light actually was, he didn't understand his shadows... but Van was always there to comfort him, showing how he saw him, and he stayed by his side despite his flaws and uneasiness.”

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Book:Torches

Source: Torches

“Go into a place where it's ninety-five percent dark and five percent light, can you see around? Yes! This is the power of light; even if the darkness is overwhelming, the way will still be found with a little light!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.”

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Author:Matthew Fox

“You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.”

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Author:Allan Dwan

“The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness.”

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Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.”

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Author:Francisco Goya

“The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things.”

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Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.”

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Book:Walt Disney: Conversations

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.”

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Book:Walt Disney: Conversations

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...”

“Withdraw now from the invisible pounding and weaving of your ingrained ideas. If you want to be rid of this invisible turmoil, you must just sit through it and let go of everything. Attain fulfillment and illuminate thoroughly. Light and shadow altogether forgotten. Drop off your own skin, and the sense-dusts will be fully purified. The eye then readily discerns the brightness.”

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Author:Hongzhi Zhengjue

“The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.”

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Author:John Edgar Park

“Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.”

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Book:Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth

Source: Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth

“I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.”

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Author:John French Sloan

“The organization of light and shadow effects produce a new enrichment of vision.”

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Book:László Moholy-Nagy: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

Source: László Moholy-Nagy: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

“A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people, entice them into a world of beauty and horror, light and shadow, of passion, of romance, of mystery. That's the magic of it. Beyond that, of course, you can open a dialogue about the ideas which interest you, but first of all you absolutely must get inside people's minds.”

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Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.”

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Author:Paul Emsley

“Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subject matter that reflects the sophistication and beauty I find in nature - all presented from a unique point of view - can only be successfully achieved with a sound command of the painter's craft... history will determine how successful I have been.”

“My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.”

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Author:William C. Wright

“Essentially, in photography, I think on two levels: one emotional and the other technical. The emotional impact has to do with looking for something dramatic happening in the photograph, something that reaches out and touches somebody in some way. And the technical is having to do with composition and framing - light and dark, light and shadow.”

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Author:Leonard Nimoy

“There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.”

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Author:Conrad Hall

“To hold silence and to be silenced are two very different experiences. And so another theme emerges, that of light and shadow. When we share our voice, who benefits? When we withhold, who benefits? And what are the consequences and costs of both?”

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Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Thus shadow owes its birth to light.”

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Book:The Fables of John Gay Illustrated

Source: The Fables of John Gay Illustrated

“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”

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Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.”

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Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.”

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Author:Manuel Alvarez Bravo

“Before I knew the camera, I knew about images. It's all about trying to make light with a pencil or with a crayon. It really helped me in the beginning, because I understood how light and shadow were working on an image.”

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Author:Malick Sidibe

“Question the images. Take them by the hand and don't let the sweet distancing they offer you vanquish you; do away with the distance's comfort or the soft indifference you derive from concentrating on the quality of the framing, the use of light and shadows, the successful composition. Force these images to bring you to the Mexican Southeast, to history, to the struggle, to this taking sides, to choose a faction.”

“There are no physical divisions in the subtle domain and therefore no barriers between heaven and hell, light and shadow.”

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Book:Life After Death: The Book of Answers

Source: Life After Death: The Book of Answers

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”

“Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.”

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Author:Charles Barkley

“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.”

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Author:Pythagoras

“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”

“There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.”

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Author:Rod Serling

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

Source: Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”

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Author:Walt Whitman

“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”

“Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.”

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Book:The Fifth Son: A novel

Source: The Fifth Son: A novel

“This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.”

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Book:The Essential Willa Cather Collection

Source: The Essential Willa Cather Collection

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies

“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.”

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Book:Mirror Mirror: A Novel

Source: Mirror Mirror: A Novel

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