Illumination Quotes - Page 10

• Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.

  David Fontana

  Walking Meditation, Mind, Unexpected

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• Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Painting, Produce, Painter

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• Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.

  John Clare

  Stars, Night, Earth

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• Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.

  Elie Metchnikoff

  Fear, Real, Tolerance

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• There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. I have heard the expression “trick of the light” applied to sights within Le Cirque des Reves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination” .

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stars, Light, Sight

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.95, Random House

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• The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach making a painting before. I think that it gets to a richer illumination of the moment, which is what I was trying to do at the beginning but going about it a little backwards.

  Julie Mehretu

  Thinking, Trying, Littles

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