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Light Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
- After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of…
- Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.
- The first of all single colors is white ... We shall set down white for the representative of light, without which no color can be…
- The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.
- A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of…
- Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The…
- When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and…
- Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
- The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything…
- The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when…
- To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.
- A gray day provides the best light.
- Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will…
- The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the…
- The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the…
- Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result…
- Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and…
- Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will…
- The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by…
- Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
- A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
- Love shows itself more in adversitythan in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place isdarkest.
More Light Quotes
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann