light Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about light.
“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.”
- William Butler Yeats
“Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.”
- Thomas de Quincey
“Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”
- Thomas Fuller
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
- Le Corbusier
“The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.”
- Stephen Gardiner
“It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.”
- Oscar Niemeyer
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
- Walt Whitman
“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”
- Robert Schumann
“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”
- John Berger
“Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.”
- Robert Delaunay