“Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.”
Claude Debussy
“Twas a light that made darkness itself appear a thing of comfort.”
Robert Southey
“In nature, light creates the colour. In the picture, colour creates the light.”
Hans Hofmann
“Outstanding, remarkable lighting scheme reaction to the architecture. Just brilliant”
FX Award Judges 2022
“For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars — pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time.”
Henry Beston
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
“Light.
Light.
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.”
T.S. Eliot
“The world touches us and we touch the world, primarily through the medium of light.”
Juhani Pallasmaa
“One of my very first memories is a narrow stripe of sunlight coming in to the room. Light moving on the wall creating shadows. The room is very quiet and the feeling is poetic.”
Kristina Riska.
“Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.”
Toni Morrison
“Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth.”
Professor Brian Cox
“........ could these fractals be introduced into building and interior design to improve wellbeing in more sustainable ways?”
See 'Thinking about Lighting and Biophilic Design. Part 1/2'
“The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?”
Charles Eames, Designer
Inspiration | No light
“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
URSULA K. LE GUIN, AUTHOR
“To love beauty is to see light.”
Victor Hugo
“Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light.”
Tom Stoppard - Night and Day
Sunset looking east and west
“Light at the end of the tunnel”
An expression of hope, currently used to describe Covid Vaccines
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
Japanese Proverb
“Light is the most important person in the picture.”
Claude Monet
Visit to Christmas Light at the Botanics, Edinburgh
A magic moment
“Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult: the atmosphere of lamps or moonlight.”
Edgar Degas
“Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness”
Pablo Picasso
The view from 22
“Light is therefore colour”
J.W. Turner