Junichiro Tanizaki Quotes

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

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

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

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

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

Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.

A light here required a shadow there.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

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

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

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

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

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

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.

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

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

Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.