“The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.” MenRealityEyeFormHe ManShadowSightBlindSalvationHis EyesRejoiceBattlefieldsBlind ManCarnage Author:Oscar W. Firkins
“All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.” MenHistoryShadowGreat Men Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.” MenMeanLittlesSufferingPleasureKnowingBirdShadowWingsCarefulMelodyRomeEaglesGiddy Author:William Shakespeare
“The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.” MenMindSaidIdeasDifferentHandsBeautifulRememberWomenDarkTreeShapesShadowIdealsCatEvery ManPhrasesBranchesDescriptionGesturesWristsAnnaDifferent IdeasUnderstatementIdeal Woman Author:William Faulkner
“What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.” MenWayI CanIdeasDifferentUseNextVisionObjectsColorPaintingElementsShadowCastsMy WayOriginalityFuse Author:Pablo Picasso
“Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?” MenStillsSeemsShadowCourtDenyPursueMistressWooing Author:Ben Jonson