Association Quote by Joseph Cornell

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

— Joseph Cornell

When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty…

— Djuna Barnes

Shadows slowly rotating. Generating a vista of heavenly night. Figures falling together at last. In relief on the bare walls and floors.

— London Elektricity

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

— Herman Melville

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“When heavy cloud decks enveloped the planet, they created a whole new surface that had never before existed, of high mountain ranges, tumbling ravines.…

— Alan Shepard

The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And…

— Bayard Taylor

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

— Victor Hugo

“Every feeling I ever knew was up in that sky: Twinkling joyous sunlight; airy, giggling cloud wisps; blinding columns of sun. Orbs of gold,…

— Maria Semple

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“And what the music elicits—in me, in most everyone who hears it and takes to it—is a strangely comforting, sensual melancholy, a gentle sadness,…

— William Todd Schultz

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

— Richard O'Brien