Sentences with phrase «shadows on the cave wall»

This shaping goes on at a level that is invisible to us and we must exit our caves, as it were, to realize that what we see in our technology as a mere means is shadows on a cave wall one step removed from the invisible reality that exists outside the cave.

But right then, he had no good answer, not even close, and he knew it, we knew it, he knew we knew it and the rest is just fireside shadows on a cave wall.

Or I should say, it appears it has — nobody knows for sure what the elves deep in the Amazon Tower actually do — we can only guess at what the shadows on the cave wall hint at.

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A rabbit makes a shadow puppet of a predator on a large stone wall and cave people run in fear.

What if all you knew was from the shadows on the wall of a cave?

His paintings are illusions, which raise the question of perception, like the shadows on the wall in the analogy of Plato's cave.

Frank is best known as a sculptor, but the photographs in this exhibition, taken of scenes she fashioned from scraps found in her studio and outdoors, had the mythic quality of shadow plays cast on a cave wall eons ago.

It's almost as if I'm shut in Plato's cave, seeing the world in the shadows on the walls — the shadows being my library of second - hand images and the cave being my studio, I suppose» — G. BROWN A display of astounding technical splendour and compelling conceptual depth, Glenn Brown's The Creeping Flesh is an enthralling example of the artist's unique painterly practice.