Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

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

The dark is light enough.

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.

It is still color, it is not yet light.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

Is not light grander than fire?

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

Everything that is,casts a shadow

All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.