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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

Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression. — Amit Ray

The ideal was the light; the real, the shadow. — Philip Jose Farmer

You want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ... — John Geddes

The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks. — Jim Dodge

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

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

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

In full light we are not even a shadow. — Antonio Porchia

There is strong shadow where there is much light. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Every man needs a shadow to reveal his light, to always be that close, ever present, bonded forever in astral allegiance. — Poppet

Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn
Indicative that suns go down;
The notice to the startled grass
That darkness is about to pass. — Emily Dickinson

Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

The shadows are as important as the light. — Charlotte Bronte

Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light — Sallust

Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me. — Anais Nin

Her light was so brilliant it burned my guilty shadow onto the floor, but I was not blinded. — Michael Hibbard

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow. — Keri Hulme

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

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

The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light. — Ram Dass

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

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. — George Steiner

God is truth and light his shadow. — Plato

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light. — Leonardo Da Vinci

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

The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body. — Aristotle.

Master Plato once said that Lux est umbra Dei; light is the shadow of God. I say this way: Light is the god of shadow! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Use your energy to be a light to brighten humanity ... not a shadow that will darken it! — Timothy Pina

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

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Shadow owes its birth to light. — John Gay

Light is the shadow of god — Plato

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

Once light is shed on a truth, you can never pull it back into the safety of shadow. — Lynn Kelling

If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light. — Pope John XXIII

Love is the light that casts no shadow. — Elizabeth Lowell

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

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

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

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

The flame that gives the greatest light also casts the longest shadow. — Stephen Moore

In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it. — Shakti Gawain

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

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

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. — Pythagoras

Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained. — John Updike

Be the mountain / be the ocean / be the tree / be happy / be the light / be the shadow / be the rain / be you / be — Ray Wilkins

So this is how they lived. For some time Theo, like a tree living in the shadow of taller trees, found a way to live off reflected light. — Dave Eggers

What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties. — G. Campbell Morgan

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

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

A light here required a shadow there. — Virginia Woolf

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

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

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow. — Arthur Schopenhauer

To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light. — Carl Jung

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

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

To light a candle is to cast a shadow — Kate Forsyth

The Light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed
The Shadow of Shadows looks on the deed alone. — W.B.Yeats

Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates. — Ted Dekker

If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it. — S. Kelley Harrell

The closer you get to the light; the greater your shadow becomes... — Mir

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

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? — Ursula K. Le Guin

Light is but the shadow of God. — Thomas Browne

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

The brighter the light, the darker the shadow. — Carl Jung

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

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

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

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

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

Don't be afraid of the shadows, it only means there's a light nearby. — Amy Lee

You don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. — Libba Bray

My past is an echo of my perfect present being the shadow of my stellar future. — Lyna Jones

Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light. — Terry Pratchett

Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light — Rumi

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

No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light. — Robert Jordan

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

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

You don't find light by avoiding the darkness. — S. Kelley Harrell

If I had known That day follows the night, That every shadow is cast by light, I would have understood The actions that he took. — Felix O. Hartmann

Dictator is a shadow; just increase the light, he shall disappear! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow. — Sun Ra

The first light had cast the first shadow. — Grant Morrison

I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light. — Margaret Atwood

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

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

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