Lighting Quotes

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats)
Freedom is just chaos with better lighting. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone. View quote
Omar Khayyám
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves their stronger, riskier selves. View quote
Toni Morrison
Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare. View quote
Helmut Jahn
I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is. View quote
Kevyn Aucoin
Decision by majorities is as much an expedient, as lighting by gas. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds. (Amy Tan)
Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,That every bullet hath a lighting place. View quote
George Gascoigne
Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting. View quote
Edgar Degas
I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun. View quote
Tim Robbins
Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer. View quote
Douglas Wilson
I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer. View quote
Kate Spade
I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself. View quote
Robert Mapplethorpe
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! View quote
Marie Windsor
I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile. View quote
Bryan White
Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians. View quote
Edward T. Hall
Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident. (Bill Sienkiewicz)
I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire. View quote
Bobby Flay
In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film. View quote
Bruce Beresford
Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images. View quote
Benjamin Millepied
People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense. View quote
Bernard Marcus