Lighting Quotes

• Just like that—in one apocalyptic moment—simple and beautiful. A birth. But also a kind of death. Like lightning in a storm. In one flash of light, the whole desert was lit, and you could see the universe. That’s what she had seen—the universe in the hands of a child feeling the face of a man.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Death
  • Universe
  • Desert

• I always look for nature or natural lighting within buildings and within rooms that has been done by somebody else to suit their needs. I look at it very closely as a photographic thing, then enhance it.

  

  Wolfgang Petersen
  • Building
  • Natural
  • Rooms

• I was glamorous because of magicians like George Folsey, James Wong Howe, Oliver Marsh, Ray June, and all those other great cinematographers. I trusted those men and the other experts who made us beautiful. The rest of it I didn't give a damn about. I didn't fuss about my clothes, my lighting, or anything else, but, believe me, some of them did.

  

  Myrna Loy
  • Beautiful
  • Giving
  • Trusted

• I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Eye
  • Looks
  • Lighting

• It all happened in an instant, like a flash of lightning, only the lightning wasn’t coming from the sky, it was coming from somewhere inside of me.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Inside
  • Lighting

• Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.

  

  Bob Teague
  • Fire
  • Lighting

• Lighting was very primitive. And still it was really the way to learn because sometimes some of the modern technology is so extreme and so compartmentalized that we lose sight of exactly what we're doing.

  

  Haskell Wexler
  • Lighting
  • Modern technology

• There was a leap of joy in him, like a flame lighting up in a dark lantern. At this moment he believed it was worth it. This moment of supreme beauty was worth all the wretchedness of the journey. It was always worth it. "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." It was the central truth of existence, and all men knew it, though they might not know that they knew it. Each man followed his own star through so much pain because he knew it, and at journey's end all the innumerable lights would glow into one.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Journey

• It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Book
  • Fight
  • Moves

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