Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claude Monet

The older I become the more I realize of that I have to work very hard to reproduce what I search: the instantaneous. The influence of the atmosphere on the things and the light scattered throughout.

Claude Monet

I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.

Claude Monet

I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.

Claude Monet

One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.

Claude Monet

I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying.

Claude Monet

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

Claude Monet

Light is the most important person in the picture.

Daphne du Maurier

Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.

Dante Alighieri

I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

Dante Alighieri

...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

Dante Alighieri

If you give people light, they will find their own way.

Dan Flavin

Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.

Dan Flavin

I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.

Dar Williams

And if I had a camera Showing all the light we give And showing where the light extends I'd give it to my friends

Dan Millman

My life has been less like a light switch suddenly turning on, and more like a dimmer switch slowly turned up, over time, more in some moments than others.

Dan Millman

Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.

Cornelius Nepos

After darkness comes the light.

Cormac McCarthy

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.

Colum McCann

He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter; sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.

Clifford D. Simak

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?

There is only one breath; all are made of the same clay; the light within all is the same.

We love March. We know that the sun will be shining and we'll be getting warmer. We've been through seven months of winter. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

We were surprised because it was a little light on the top line.

Ouida

There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told ...

Ram Dass

Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.

Ram Dass

Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.