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Quotes About Illuminate

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
~ Harvey Fierstein
We light the candle and ask the Lord Jehovah to illuminate the week ahead. We sprinkle spices into the flame and remind ourselves that the Sabbath should remain a sweet scent in our lives, flavoring the days to come.
~ Janette Oke
All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.
~ bell hooks
I've always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully illuminate a lot of the important things. It's a challenge, but it's something I kind of believe in.
~ David Grann
I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness.
~ Dan Brown
one should carry a small candle about the corners of a room radiant with a central light.
~ Will Durant
Sometimes when light dawns it simply illuminates how dismal circumstances have become.
~ Helen Macdonald
I don't know anything about light, from where it comes, nor where it goes I only want the light to light up. . .
~ Helen Oyeyemi
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
~ Ernest Dimnet
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.
~ Paul Rand
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
~ Claire Messud
Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.
~ Joel Benenson
Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.
~ Huston Smith
There are two ways to shine: to reflect light or produce it.
~ Paul Claudel
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
~ George Jean Nathan
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
~ Harvey Fierstein
Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays.
~ John Keble
Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it. [Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction , Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2]
~ David Foster Wallace
Astros extinguíos! No aclare vuestra luz mis oscuros designios.
~ William Shakespeare
Since life's like that: you press a button and life lights up.
~ Clarice Lispector
Recognition of this lack might break you apart. Or recognition might illuminate the erasure the attempted erasure triggers. Whether such discerning creates a healthier, if more isolated, self, you can't know. In any case, Youngman doesn't speak to this kind of anger. He doesn't say that witnessing the expression of this more ordinary and daily anger might make the witness believe that a person is "insane." And
~ Claudia Rankine
What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.
~ Nicholas Meyer
The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.
~ Unknown
Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!
~ Vera Nazarian