Quotes About Illumination

The walls shimmer with mica, and the ceiling is all branches and green vines. In the antechamber, the shell of an enormous snail glows, a lamp the size of a small table.

The sun, which sees all things and hears all things.

single spotlight revealed Alice's

Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.

Swagga so bright, I dont even need light.

There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individual's personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.

One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can any longer dismiss the fantasy because it is logically inconsistent, superficially absurd, or objectively untrue.

For Sylvia's greatest bequest was the reminder that true friends are the most precious gift, and that even in the darkest of times love illuminates the way home.

Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same: that which is now seen and now grasped is not, in its clearness, the shadowy thing that was.

once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.

Her voice came through the night, from the light, from the stars.

A full moon falling on the snow lit up the world - who needed electricity?

Their mooncast shadows snagged on potholes in the old parking lot and pulled like black taffy.

suddenly the sunlight was briefly snipped, as if a page had been turned in front of a lightbulb.

man-made lightning

The sunlight on her hair.

Each story has a different approach for me and I try to work with lighting that will tell you visually the story better than if it was shot in available light.

Identify darkness in the society and find ways to help illuminate it

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio.

The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.

The substance of painting is light.

Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.