Lighting Quotes

• Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

  Albert Hadley

  Light, Design, Important

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• Fiery and sweet, all at the same time. A flame in the dark, lighting my way.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Dark, Flames

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• Everything is really about lighting.

  Robert Denning

  "The More the Merrier — Robert Denning's Extravagance of Color and Pattern" by Cynthia Zarin in Architectural Digest v. 59 #4, pp. 146-152, April 2002.

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• Lighting is everything in a color.

  Diana Vreeland

  Color

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• An effective lighting design is like a beautiful painting. Your medium is bringing someone to an emotional state he or she would not achieve at that moment without your art. This does not and can not happen by accident.

  Unknown

  Beautiful, Art, Emotional

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• The best way to know when there's good lighting is when you don't notice it.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Way, Good Lighting, Knows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

  John Foster

  Motivation, Work, Responsibility

  John Foster (1849). “The life and thoughts of John Foster”, p.266

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• Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

  Muhammad Ali

  Government, Atlanta, Torches

  "Muhammad Ali: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• You cannot brighten another's path without lighting your own.

  Frank McKinney

  Stay Strong, Path, Strong

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• Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our job is to support their poetic direction.

  Jules Fisher

  Jobs, Support, Theatre

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• The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.

  Jean Rosenthal

  Successful, Brilliant, Designer

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• Lighting affects everything light falls upon. How you see what you see, how you feel
  about it, and how you hear what you are hearing. Replace the 'a' with an 'e' and you get lighting effects!

  Jean Rosenthal

  Fall, Light, How You Feel

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• The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Perfect, Important, All Time

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• Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

  Douglas Coupland

  Failure, Light, Sometimes

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• The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.

  Susan Cain

  Secret, Life Is

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.264, Broadway Books

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• I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it.

  Jennifer Tipton

  Past, Ninety Nine, Doe

  "Theatrenow! Interview With Jennifer Tipton, Lighting Designer". "Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow! " with Anne Hamilton, theatrenow.wordpress.com. December 17, 2011.

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• It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

  Lacey Chabert

  Fun, Special, Visual Effects

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

  Meryl Streep

  Perfect, Annoyed, Attention

  "Meryl Streep on "Marvin's Room"". Interview with Henri Béhar, www.filmscouts.com. December 22, 1996.

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  I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Positive, Stars

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino, 1968.

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• Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Eye, Body, Faces

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle.

  Rumi

  Light, Candle, Loses

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• Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that there is something deep and mysterious about it or that you have to know all sorts of complicated details about periods before you can lift a finger. Well, you don't. Decorating is just sheer fun: a delight in color, an awareness of balance, a feeling for lighting, a sense of style, a zest for life and an amused enjoyment of the smart accessories of the moment.

  Dorothy Draper

  Fun, Smart, Believe

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• By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space.

  Robert Moss

  Space, Sacred, Opening

  Robert Moss (2010). “Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death”, p.14, New World Library

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• Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.

  Edgar Degas

  Light, Etc, Evening

  Robert Hale Ives Gammell, Edgar Degas (1961). “The shop-talk of Edgar Degas”

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• Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.

  Thom Filicia

  Essentials, Use, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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