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Quotes About Light

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
~ Hans Hofmann
A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.
~ Arthur Dove
By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.
~ Matthew Henry
The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.
~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.
~ Paul Gauguin
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.
~ John Denver
The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.
~ John Constable
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
~ Hans Hofmann
God and Nature met in light.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sun - my almighty physician.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
~ John Milton
Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.
~ Kenya Hara
Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.
~ August Macke
White does not exist in nature.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
~ Charles Darwin
Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light.
~ Charles Wesley
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
~ Alexander Pope
Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.
~ Gyorgy Kepes
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
~ William Law