Quotes About Illumination

Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.

There is a shadow on every page.

I wanted to paint with shadows and capture what light would look like in clothes.

I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.

I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.

Peter Levenda

In the same way that the sun blinds the one who looks directly at its light, so God's incoming blinds our intellect. In this way the God who is testified to in the Judeo-Christian tradition saturates our understanding with a blinding presence.

Poterunt discussis forte tenebris Ad puram priscumque iubar remeare nepotes Tunc Elicona noua reuitentem stripe iudebis Tunc lauros frondere sacras; tunc alta resurgent Ingenia atque animi dociles, quibus ardour honesti Pyeridum studii ueterem geminabit amorem.

And she almost laughs as she realizes, three thousand meters from the nearest sunlight, that it's only dark when the lights are on.

She was attractive, but so was everyone in this kind of light; the longer the wavelength, the softer the focus. There's a reason fuckcubbies don't come with fluorescent lights.

Fakat bu ????a çok bakam?yordum, bu güne? bile gözlerimden içeriye girince, kendinden daha büyük bir karanl?k denizine dü?mü? gibi derhal sönüyor ve içimin rengini al?yordu.

Her face was very beautiful, he thought. He hadn't been sure before, but he was now. The mind that lived behind it made it beautiful, the same way that the flame inside a lantern makes the lantern beautiful.

When you open the blinds, open them like you're lifting the veil of enlightenment. Or just open the blinds. See?

La luna era ormai alta alta nel cielo, s'era rimpicciolita e pareva non volesse più aver che fare col mondo, tutta assorta nella contemplazione di quello che ci stava al di là. Al mondo, pareva che ormai mostrasse solo il sedere; e, da quel sederino d'argento, pioveva giù una luce grandiosa, che invadeva tutto.

All our lives are miraculous if only we are willing to view them that way. The world keeps on pulsing new amazements, providing a constant series of epiphanies, illuminations, peak experiences. If, out of inattention, cynicism or a moribund view of the world, we don't respond to the wondrous, then we get what we expect: a confirmation that life is unsurprising.

It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

We use the vocabulary of light to describe a spiritual experience.

I always consider the settlement of America with Reverence and Wonder," John Adams wrote in 1765, "as the Opening of a grand scene and Design in Providence, for the Illumination of the Ignorant and the Emancipation of the slavish Part of Mankind all over the Earth.

The stumbling block will turn out to be the traditional one for students of consciousness: the flashlight is incapable of shining on itself, so we can't trust what its light reveals.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

From the movie Everything is Illuminated based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine.

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.

A simple trick from the backyard astronomer: if you are having trouble seeing something, look slightly away from it. The most light-sensitive parts of our eyes (those we need to see dim objects) are on the edges of the region we normally use for focusing. Eating animals has an invisible quality. Thinking about dogs, and their relationship to the animals we eat, is one way of looking askance and making something invisible visible.

The apartment had never been darker. I turned on the lamp. It became bright around us. The apartment became darker.