Able Quote by Marcel Duchamp

“Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are.”

— Marcel Duchamp

Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the…

— Marcel Duchamp

If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the…

— Marcel Duchamp

There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within…

— Louis L'Amour

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

— Bell Hooks

“One of the marks of our obliviousness, one of the countless signs that our thinking minds have grown estranged from the intelligence of our…

— David Abram

It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!

— Stephen Hawking

Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies…

— Leonardo da Vinci

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

— Edmund Burke

What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People…

— Leonard Susskind