Sam Francis Quotes

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

Shadow owes its birth to light.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

The dark is light enough.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

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

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

A light here required a shadow there.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.

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

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.