Shadows Quotes

941 Shadows quotes by 659 unique authors

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. — Tryon Edwards
To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast. — 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… — 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… — Ben Jonson
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form. — Howard Pyle
Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows... — 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… — Claude Monet
The shadows are as important as the light. — 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… — Joseph Joubert
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.… — Bob Dylan
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. — Emily Carr
I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canvas... Within me sounded the… — Wassily Kandinsky
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters. — Georg Trakl
To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows. — John F. Carlson
Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. — Walt Disney
Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a… — Thomas Aquinas
Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening… — Theodore Roosevelt
Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and… — Robert E. Howard
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoonsâ€” That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunesâ€” Heavenly Hurt, it gives usâ€” We can find no… — Emily Dickinson

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