Light Quotes

“My one idea is to reproduce queer, beautiful effects of light.”

“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”

“I'm interested in the nature of space, the quality of light, the relationship between solid and void.”

“Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the discovery that there is a light.”

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

“Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.”

“Light is therefore color.”

“I spend most of my time darkening it, because the light bothers me.”

“It is the sun that is the great painter.”

“Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.”

“Light is the key. Light is the maker of space.”

“When the light is right and everything is working for you, a photographer's mind slows down, and you are able to see.”

“Chasing the light is a photographer's mantra.”

“Christ, whose glory fills the skies, Christ, the true, the only Light.”

“Light is the life of a room.”

“A colour photograph is a history of the light which fell upon it.”

“Light is everything. It's what gives a painting its life, its mood, its drama.”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”