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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

John Ruskin

Beauty

Light

Shadows

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

Ernie Pyle

Shadows

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

Evita Peron

Shadows

Sun

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

Richard O'Brien

Mind

Shadows

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.