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Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You, But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesn't Follow You.
My starring in films with Clint didn't make me toast of the town. I became his appendage. Everything I did was in his shadow.
I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.
His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows
The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.
I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
and the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins.
Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.
Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.
The shameless criminality of Lenin, Stalin, and the Cheka cast a long shadow, but I don't see their kind returning anytime soon.
Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.
When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.
We live on planet earth, we have the sun, and it's the most beautiful thing, the way the sun dances and the way shadows are cast.
I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.
But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?
I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.
Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado.
Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207
A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.
The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .
I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.
Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.
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 art.
Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure.
My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.
There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.
By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.
Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.
Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.
I love the light-brown shadow I made with Colourpop. It's a nice matte and neutral color that gives a bit of definition on the lids.
My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.
In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?
Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.