Art Quote by David Hockney

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed…

— David Hockney

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is…

— Hans Frank

A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep…

— Rick Riordan

You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which…

— Al Hirschfeld

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

— William C. Wright

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

— Emily Carr

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light)…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

— Henry James

Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to…

— Josef von Sternberg

One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings.…

— Robert Longo

Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a…

— James Elkins

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

— Jean-Francois Chevrier