Light Source Quotes

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light

How does a cosmos without a bearded, bathrobed God in the sky pull off all the things that a bearded, bathrobed guy in the sky was supposed to have pulled off? If there was no God who said 'Let there be light,' where did we get all that light?

The source of all light is in the eye.

Light does not come from light, but from darkness.

Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols.

When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

Why is light denied?

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself out of you, as if you were burning inside. Under your skin the moon is alive.

In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.

Everything that is,casts a shadow

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes.

Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available.

I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.

The sun cares nothing for illumination.