Lighting is the best way in which one can add grace and drama to a place. Gone are the days when lighting was used as an essential; it has become a luxury now. We no longer add lighting just for the sake of adding visibility. Somtimes tattoos are harmful for health. It can make a big difference to our interior. More than five centuries back, Desiderius Erasmus said "Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself." What he said then, is equally true even now. |
Quotes On Light
- In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. Aaron Rose
- You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. Arlo Guthrie
- In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. Ellen DeGeneres
- There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. M. C. Escher
- Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
- We burn daylight. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 4
- There are two kinds of light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. James Grover Thurber
- The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. Matthew Arnold
- Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- a lighted candle... against all odds the flame flickers. Andy Wolk
- Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. Desiderius Erasmus
- All light is available light. Paul Strand
- From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being. Ba'al Shem Tov
- Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness. Dan Millman
- One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. Joseph Campbell
- It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Marianne Williamson
- Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people is to deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival. Rabindranath Tagore
- Look at a person's light, not their lampshade. Gerald G. Jampolsky
Light, like all things, follows the path of the beautiful. Eric Booth
- Light is the most important person in the picture. Claude Monet
- Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. Japanese Proverb
- The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be. Shakti Gawain
- In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a "child of darkness" who is equal and complementary to the more obvious "child of light. Laurens van der Post
- Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. Irish Proverb
- There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. Plato
- The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Vladimir Nabokov
- From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- His high endeavors are an inward light/ That makes the path before him always bright. William Wordsworth
- In the beginning there was nothing. God said, "Let there be light!" And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. Ellen DeGeneres
- Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft. Sven Nykvist
- In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal
- Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin
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Lighting has always been with us, paradoxically, like our own shadows and has helped perform our work more easily,made us feel comfortable and relaxed to say the least. In fact, our own eyes desert us when there is no light. It can change our lives like no other decorative article.
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