Shadow Play Quotes

Our effects were primitive. Our stars were a black cloth with holes in it and light behind.

The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.

'Session 9' used light and darkness to create atmosphere.

Moonlight is sculpture.

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

'Rhye' clearly plays with notions of sexual identity, and it has made a concerted effort to keep its own identity mysterious. Its love songs are gender-neutral, the members have declined to appear in their own videos, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a photo of the duo that doesn't cast them in shadows.

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.

Our shadows are taller than ourselves.

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.

You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.

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

The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.

As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.

Back-light is the cinematographer's friend.

One of my favorite things to do, when the ghost light is on and it's just an empty stage - I'll let my shadow spread right across the theater, and I just say to myself, 'For the next few hours, these folks are my responsibility. I get to share in something that is unique.' It's like church.

Light is architectural. It is sculptural.