#shadows

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#important #know #shadows #you

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#extraordinarily #figuring #how #infinite #job

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. ↗

— Junichiro Tanizaki

#dark #find #itself #light #only

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! ↗

— O. Henry

#business #family #love #man #nothing

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 these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. ↗

— David Hockney

#chinese #course #deals #i #knew

To think of shadows is a serious thing. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#shadows #thing #think

To contemplate is to look at shadows. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#look #shadows

Like many faeries she knew, he was sculpture-perfect, but instead of being wrought of shadows like those in her court, this faery had a tangled feel to him. Shadow and radiance. He didn‘t look much older than her, until she saw the arrogance in his posture. Then, he reminded her of Irial, of Bananach, of Keenan, of the faeries who walked through courts and crowds confident that they could slaughter everyone in the room. Like chaos in a glass cage. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#faery #radiant-shadows #love

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#full #joys #often #only #our

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. ↗

— Jennie Churchill

#forever #shadows #substance #throwing