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Shadow Quotes - Page 5

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Ralph Ellison (2010). “Three Days Before the Shooting . . .”, p.987, Modern Library

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.38, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

The shadow proves the sunshine.

"Song: "The Shadow Proves the Sunshine"". 2005.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1277, Delphi Classics

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ann Dexter Gordon, Susan Brownell Anthony (2000). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Against an aristocracy of sex, 1866 to 1873”, p.126, Rutgers University Press

A light here required a shadow there.

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.290, Wordsworth Editions

I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.

"Interview: Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Laurence Lerman, www.discdish.com. January 11, 2016.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.5, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.

"The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt: Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France". Book by Alison MacQueen, 2003.