Shadow Quotes

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Man is a substance clad in shadows. — John Sterling
Art is a shadow of Divine perfection. — Michelangelo
It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of… — Jacques Barzun
... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on… — Wallace Stegner
We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound,… — Stephen Vincent Benet
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die. — Katherine Anne Porter
Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for… — Andre Breton
The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than… — Georges Duhamel
We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more. — Pindar
The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins. — Paul Theroux
What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows,… — Leopold Sedar Senghor
It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character. — Jason Lee
I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just… — Todd McFarlane
There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them. — Richard O'Brien
Every major industry was once a growth industry. But some that are now riding a wave of growth enthusiasm are very much in the shadow… — Theodore Levitt
Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun… — Marcel Duchamp
The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, Karl… — Kenneth Goff
With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite… — Nick Park
Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition… — Frederick Lenz

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