#shadows

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

— Junichiro Tanizaki

#dark #find #itself #light #only

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. ↗

— David Hockney

#chinese #course #deals #i #knew

Like many faeries she knew, he was sculpture-perfect, but instead of being wrought of shadows like those in her court, this faery had a tangled feel to him. Shadow and radiance. He didn‘t look much older than her, until she saw the arrogance in his posture. Then, he reminded her of Irial, of Bananach, of Keenan, of the faeries who walked through courts and crowds confident that they could slaughter everyone in the room. Like chaos in a glass cage. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#faery #radiant-shadows #love

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. ↗

— Jennie Churchill

#forever #shadows #substance #throwing

Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#cultures #existed #indian #live #magical

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. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#children #comes #friendships #gay #having

The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it. ↗

— Ariana Franklin

#art

A child can escape the shadows. ↗

— Steve Largent

#escape #shadows

Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about. ↗

— Steve Israel

#borders #currently #immigrants #know #live

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#am #any #big #control #convinced