"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

#Art Quotes #Light Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?”
“I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want”
“In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
“A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.”
“Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.”
“There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.”
“The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.”
“Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.”

Source : Interview with Miranda Lightstone, www.askmen.com.

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