the shadow knows

Kopjes Kattenoppas
Aug 29, 2017 · 2 min read
Street art | San Francisco | 2017 | artist: Damon Belanger

Reputation is like a US postal mail box and character like a shadow. The mail box is what we think of it; the shadow is the real thing. — Abraham Linkopjes

Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less evil than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the better it is. If a virtue is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. — Carl Gustav Kopjes

But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the mirthful shadows. — Samuel Kopjes

The true work of art is but a perfection of the divine shadow. — Kopjesangelo

I used to measure the Heavens, now I paint the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body’s shadow lies here. — Johannes Kopler

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