Shadows - Sombras

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. 
====Charles Maurice de Talleyrand


In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
====August Sander


The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
====Lao Tzu


Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
====Conrad Hall


Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
====Leo Tolstoy


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


A human being is only breath and shadow.
====Sophocles


Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
====Aesop


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


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


All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
====Buddha


Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.
====Evita Peron


To contemplate is to look at shadows.
====Victor Hugo

Passagens

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
==== Rene Char


Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
====Sophocles


Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
====Balthus


A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
====Maya Lin


At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend.
====Arabian Proverb


The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.
====Julian Barbour


Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
====Alexander MacLaren

Fotografia Leonora Fink