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“I know that there is one God in heaven, the Father of all humanity, and heaven is therefore one. I know that there is one sun in the sky, which gives light to all the world. As there is unity in God, and unity in the light, so is there unity in the principles of freedom. Wherever it is broken, wherever a shadow is cast upon the sunny rays of the sun of liberty, there is always danger of free principles everywhere in the world.”

Knows World Giving Light Humanity Father Heaven Liberty Principles Sun Sky Danger Broken Shadow Unity Casts Rays Sunny

Author:Lajos Kossuth

“As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they are in great strong masses: the buttons are lost, but the sitter remains; the sitter is lost, but the shadow remains; the shadow is lost, but the picture remains. And that, night cannot efface from the painter's imagination.”

Light Night Lost Strong Imagination Mass Shadow Remains Details Disappear Painter Fades Buttons Petty

Author:James Whistler

“A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.”

Women Like You Shadow

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.”

Wells May Soul Adventure Wall Shadow Concern Consistency Self Reliance Misunderstood Reliance Inconsistency Great Souls Little Minds

Book:Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

“All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.”

Men History Shadow Great Men

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.”

Behinds Watches Shadow Providence Breaking Silence

Author:James Russell Lowell

“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.”

Men Mean Littles Suffering Pleasure Knowing Bird Shadow Wings Careful Melody Rome Eagles Giddy

Author:William Shakespeare

“Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.”

Kissing Shadow Bliss Shadow Kiss

Author:William Shakespeare

“And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows”

Dream Shadow Kingdoms Knights

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun.”

Thinking Watches Sun Praying Prove Shadow Mark Trials Passing Passings Undone

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.”

Long Self Reason Shadow Chiefs Knees Fancy Delusion Bows Spears

Book:The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)

Source: The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)

“To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.”

Eye Shadow Criticism Colour Brown Filthy Rubens

Book:The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

“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.”

“Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!”

Sin Glory Shadow Guilt Evening Monstrous Scarce

Author:John Suckling

“Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.”

Wells Has Beens Training Shadow Deception Get Back Academic Deceived

Author:Pablo Picasso

“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.”

Men Way I Can Ideas Different Use Next Vision Objects Color Painting Elements Shadow Casts My Way Originality Fuse

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.”

Shadow Superstitions

Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts

“To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.”

Body Light White Sun Air Shadow Casts Receiving

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the South, keep the window screened with cloth, so that with the sun shining the whole day the light may not vary. The height of the light so arranged as that every object shall cast a shadow on the ground of the same length as itself.”

Ifs Should May Whole Light Order Sun Objects Shadow Window Shining South Casts Drawing Height Length Vary

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden.”

Should Light Seems Would Be Results Shadow Difficulty Finished Boundaries Defined

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“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?”

Men Stills Seems Shadow Court Deny Pursue Mistress Wooing

Author:Ben Jonson

“Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.”

Prove Shadow Envy Pursue Substance Merit Shade

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

“What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?”

Ifs Earth Heaven Shadow What If

Author:John Milton

“No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.”

Long Dream Spirit Shadow Endure Luxury Immortality Restless Restless Spirit

Book:Endymion: A Poetic Romance

Source: Endymion: A Poetic Romance

“These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.”

Littles Turns Heaven Hell Fate Shadow Casts Ships Unconscious Slips Trifles Rudders Heaven Or Hell

Book:Life in the Iron-Mills

Source: Life in the Iron-Mills

“See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.”

Humans May Made Lying Found Human Nature Shadow Creator Deities Umbrella Sunbeams Covert

Book:Emblems

Source: Emblems

“Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.”

Night Shadow

Author:Philip James Bailey

“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.”

Light Form Realizing Lines Half Darkness Shadow Raises Paint Spots Sculpture Hollow Sculptors Ridges Light And Shadow Chisels

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.”

Mean Light Form Color Shadow Paint Texture

Author:Howard Pyle

“Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying shadow will return no more.”

Voice Leader Return Shadow Flying Mortals Grieving Back When Monarchs

Author:Maurice Maeterlinck

“Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.”

Looks Light Sun Draws Shadow

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.”

Ifs Persons Found Figures Shadow Originals Starting Starting Point Strangeness

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.”

Thinking Heaven Objects Ought Shadow Tests Blue Paint Atmosphere Isolated Sunlight Tubes Domes

Book:Monet: a retrospective

Source: Monet: a retrospective

“My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.”

Writing Night Loneliness Majors Shadow Heavy Theme Drag Affliction Day And Night Follow Me

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.”

Wells May Play Light Seems Please Shadow Resources Painter Relief Modesty Charming Sculpture Boldness Sculptors Paradoxical Etching

Book:Rodin on Art and Artists

Source: Rodin on Art and Artists

“The shadows are as important as the light.”

Important Light Shadow Eloquence

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void.”

People Order Term Shadow Profound Abstract Void Fonts

Author:Joseph Joubert

“And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.”

Home Turns Grows Walks Moon Shadow Evening Foam Turn Me

Book:Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

Source: Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

“I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.”

People Way Sleep Rooms Cities Five Streets New York Mines Ten Shadow Train Bottom Snow Flight New York City Coal Starving Sleeping In

Author:Bob Dylan

“Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.”

Running Desire Morning Sun Shadow Morning Sun

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.”

Heart Pain Silence Cold Evolution Shadow Clouds Sparks Ashes Rapture Dusk Larks

Book:Poems by John B Tabb

Source: Poems by John B Tabb

“Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.”

Art Real Natural Mystery Shadow Serving Unseen Unseen Things

Author:Cennino Cennini

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

Light Form Shadow Lit Light And Shadow

Author:Francisco Goya

“Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.”

Firsts Two Tree Painting Masters Shadow Bless Sunlight

Book:Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Source: Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.”

Needs Facts Happened Adventure Shadow Mere Endure Forgotten Tales Being True Dust Ashes Sandman

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canva... Within me sounded the memory of early evening in Moscow, before my eyes was the strong, colour-saturated scale of the Munich light and atmosphere, which thundered deeply in the shadows.”

Littles Light Eye House Strong Memories Tree Shadow Scales Spots Evening Atmosphere Colour Canvas Moscow Stripes Saturated Munich

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“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.”

Way Light Space Knowing Teacher Week Changed Draws Shadow Negative Drawing Proportion Not Knowing Portraits Space Between Sketching Light And Shadow Negative Space

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.”

Sun Genius Shadow Casts Resistance

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is.”

Moments Facts Fall Shadow Celebrate

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.”

May Effort Youth Shadow Ruins Awful Score Incentives Wrecks Visualization

Author:Mary Church Terrell

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