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

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.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief the souvenir of pain.

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.

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

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

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.

The light of lights looks always on the motive not the deed the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

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.