Light Quotes - Page 13

• And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless as light itself - /All gold and white and light.

  Lawren Harris

  Running, White, Gold

  Lawren Harris, Gregory Betts (2007). “In the Ward: His Urban Poetry and Paintings”, p.51, Exile Editions, Ltd.

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• So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to turn away from it comes, observe it but don’t act on it. Keep putting your attention on the pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Loneliness, Grief

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• It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Sunshine, Reflection

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Interview with David Sheff, davidsheff.com. March 1983.

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• It's not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own shine.

  M. R. DeHaan

  Christian, Blow, Shining

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• I've really learned over the years how to control my adrenaline and let it all out when they shoot the gun versus letting the crowd and the lights and the camera get to me.

  Tyson Gay

  Gun, Years, Crowds

  "Human to Hero: Tyson Gay primed for Olympic challenge", www.cnn.com. May 16, 2012.

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• White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

  Honore de Balzac

  Strong, Queens, Prayer

  "Seraphita". Book by Honoré de Balzac. Chapter 6: "The Road to Heaven", 1834.

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• Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Faith, Rays, Splendor

  "Marble Faun the Romance of Monte Beni Vo".

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• Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Shadow, Would Be, Boundaries

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1938). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

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• Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.

  Paul Gauguin

  Shadow, Looks, Sun

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Impression

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Linda L. McAlister, Margarete Schättle (2007). “Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben”, Univ of California Press

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• Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.

  Dogen

  Self, Mind, Faces

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• The forehead of every work must shine from afar.

  Pindar

  Shining, Afar, Foreheads

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• Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.

  Paul Cezanne

  Color

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• An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter.

  Paul Cezanne

  Sight, Doe, Half

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• To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew... | Hooded by a dark sense of destination... | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Ocean, Sleep, Dark

  Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.325, Stanford University Press

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• You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun; so that, in the blending and suffusing of these several luminations, there is no such thing as a line to be seen anywhere.

  Winslow Homer

  Sky, Giving, Lines

  Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich (1973). “Winslow Homer”

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• I love lying in darkness.

  Nicole Kidman

  Lying, Darkness, Darkness To Light

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• When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.

  Christopher Alexander

  Two Sides, People, Choices

  Christopher Alexander (1977). “A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction”, p.747, Oxford University Press

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• Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Quality, Technique, Individual

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• Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

  John Muir

  Short Life, Fate, Blessing

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.187, Library of America

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• A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Men, Toads

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.166, Harvard University Press

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• I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him. We painters, however, can never reproduce sunlight as it really is. I can only approach the truth of it.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Hate, Darkness, Painting

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• I want painting to be my flashlight.

  Squeak Carnwath

  Want, Painting, Flashlights

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• Most people would guess that the sun is fifty or a hundred times brighter than the moon, but it's a half million times brighter - evidence of the amazing capacity of our eyes to adjust to light and dark.

  James Elkins

  Eye, Dark, Moon

  James Elkins (2007). “How to Use Your Eyes”, p.215, Routledge

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