Light And Shadow Art Quotes

#1. Remember, light and shadow never stand still.

Benjamin West

#2. All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

Billy Graham

#3. 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

#4. At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

Sumner Redstone

#5. The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Walter Bagehot

#6. There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality.

Clayton M Christensen

#7. Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

Hans Frank

#8. 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

#9. The antidote to climate change is community.

Starhawk

#10. Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled ... in a unique and inimitable way.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.

William Morris Hunt

#12. 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

#13. In a foggy morning, sunshine coming through the trees looks so divine that we seriously think it is the hand of the very divinity itself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

Nhat Hanh

#15. Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.

Okakura Kakuzo

#16. Hey, you know I might not be perfect! But I'm a wonderful work in progress!

D.C. Akers