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Remember, light and shadow never stand still. — Benjamin West

Because it is the light that helps cast the shadow, and it is the dark which provides the background to give light its vibrancy. Practitioners — Gillian Nolan

Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will. — Mary Stewart

The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow. — John Green

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. — Carl Jung

Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning. — Nicolaus Copernicus

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. — Diane Ackerman

Thus shadow owes its birth to light. — John Gay

To behold the day-break!
The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
The air tastes good to my palate. — Walt Whitman

Cultivate balance. After all, there's no such thing as a shadow without the involvement of light. — Erica Alex

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

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. — Josef Von Sternberg

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves. — William C. Wright

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice. — Maya Angelou

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. — Socrates

A shadow archive and an archive of shadows, the literary architectonic demands a resistance to excessive illumination. — Akira Mizuta Lippit

The darkness of the world is but a shadow, but there is light that causes the shadow. — John Hudson Tiner

My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain. — Kathryn V. White

That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God. — Ann Voskamp

You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way. — James S.A. Corey

Don't let the Sun go down on you today. Be the light instead, that shines forth and touches everyone's shadow, awakening them to that light. — Denis John George

There are no physical divisions in the subtle domain and therefore no barriers between heaven and hell, light and shadow. — Deepak Chopra

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression. — Bruno Dumont

You didn't grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted. — Thomas Steinbeck

-a superb moon, round as a pumpkin and golden as honey, filling the rooftop world with light, and deep, mysterious shadow. — Barbara Sleigh

Turn and face the Light, and all you see is Brightness. Turn and face Shadow, and all of Life will appear before you. — Stan Sudan

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light. — Leonardo Da Vinci

May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns ... and may the moonshadow never fall on you ... — Robert Fanney

Oh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadows
where you accompany me in your dreams
and tell me the hour of light. — Pablo Neruda

I am the shadow of what we were, and while there is light we exist. — Luis Sepulveda

Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night. — John Donne

Walk towards the light, put it on your head and then crush your shadow that hides under your feet — Aftab Alam

And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord. — Pope Francis

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today. — Edward Abbey

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light. — Patrick Swayze

We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!' — R.C. Sproul

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light ... — Harriet Beecher Stowe

It was all real and blazing with detail.
But I was shadow, light as mist, mute as the wallpaper. — Laura Whitcomb

Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other. — Pierre Coupey

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter. — Paul Emsley

Believing you are good is like believing in the half moon. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows ... — Paul Gauguin

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. — Toru Takemitsu

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow. — Laurie Lee

I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death. — Manuel Alvarez Bravo

In the midst of shadow and pain His light leads the way. We need to focus on the light, not the shadow. — Diane M. Walker

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism. — Jim DeMint

I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light. — Louis Kahn

Love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow ... — Tennessee Williams

for every shadow there is a light casting upon it and for every light there is a shadow to be created — Thomas Conway

Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands. — Bram Stoker

If I am your shadow [...,] it is only because you are my light. And the one cannot exist without the other.
~Draco — Claire

Courage is vulnerability. Vulnerability is courage. Like shadow and light, neither one can exist without the other. — Wai Lan Yuen

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. — Ruth Bernhard

I'll lie here and learn
How, over their ground,
Trees make a long shadow
And a light sound. — Louise Bogan

The organization of light and shadow effects produce a new enrichment of vision. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Leave the light and travel the shadow-lands, said Blaise, repeating the inscription on the silver box. — Teresa Flavin

You have walked among us a spirit, and your shadow has been a light upon our faces. — Kahlil Gibran

Praise
the invisible sun burning beyond
the white cold sky, giving us
light and the chimney's shadow. — Denise Levertov

Like light and shadow, love and hate were inseparable. One could not exist without the other. — David Gemmell

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade ... Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire. — Theodore Roethke

The light of our home also was to depart to her husband's house, and leave her father's in the shadow. — Rabindranath Tagore

Go fast, Plain Kate, and travel light
Learn to walk the shadowy night
Without a shadow, flee from light
Become a shadow, truly — Erin Bow

My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine. — Frances Harper

Where do shadows fall when there is only light. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

If light is love, then fear is its shadow — L.J. Vanier

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. — Joseph Joubert

God is truth and light his shadow. — Plato

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow. — Annie Baker

He seemed so cold. Like a shadow caused by heat and light falling on someone honorable and true, casting this black imitation behind. — Brandon Sanderson

Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless. — Rumi

Shadow is Light's child. It is nothing without the Light, and nothing if it falls into Darkness. — Anne Hamilton

I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what? — Steve Martin

I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more. — Haruki Murakami

And then like thunder broke the frost,
The chill wall fell, and morrowless
Immortal maid and man embraced,
Their light and shadow mingling. — Alison Croggon

While I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes. — R.L. LaFevers

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes. — Plato

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. — Paul Cezanne

Problems are like your own shadow. If you look at them you will miss the sunshine. So.. Turn back.. towards the light.. and go on. — Vikrmn

Life is a mixture of light and shadow, calm and storm, and it's all good. — Susan W. Krebs

You're the twinkling light in my eye. You're my shadow always protecting me. You've always got my back, and I love you for that — Briana Evigan