Art Quote by Hans Christian Andersen

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still…

— Khalil Gibran

“If an object - a star, for instance, like our own sun - is eight hundred light years away from the Earth, it would…

— Wendy Mass

“Light from even a nearby star was four years old by the time it reached your eyes. Where would I be in four years?…

— Elif Batuman

“So all these years—since when?—he had been seeing the light of dead stars, long extinguished, yet seemingly still in their appointed places in the…

— Paz Marquez Benitez

“Distance and antiquity (the emphases of space and time) pull on our hearts. If we are already sobered by the thought that men lived…

— Jorge Luis Borges

This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are seeing these nearby stars, not as they are at the present moment, but as they were 4 years ago”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Man’s time is short on the earth, but we trees watch the years march past like days. The stars are motionless to you, but…

— G. Norman Lippert

“Looking at the stars is a glimpse of history. Some of the things we see are millions of light-years away. Everything in the universe…

— Kevin Alan Milne

“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….”

— Timothy Zahn

An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called…

— Joseph Plaskett

“Did you know that the light from our nearest star takes four years to reach us? Which means when we see it- when we…

— Ali Benjamin