4,631 Quotes About Light

No, you don't shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that's what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you see.

You don't find light by avoiding the darkness.

Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and the green-tinged light reflected from the forest, will seem quite different to the same face seen on a beach in hard, dry, sunlight, or in a darkening room at twilight, with the shadows of a venetian blind striped across it like a convict’s uniform.

When the sun begins rubbing the eastern horizon warm with the first pastel-thin light of a new day, I am reminded that the sun had to let the world go dark before it was sufficiently positioned to make the world become light.

This morning, the birds were singing before the sun came up. And in thinking about that, it amazed me that they would readily sing into the darkness without demanding that the light show itself first.

A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light!

Even in the darkest cloudsThere are specks of joyOut of the darknessComes lightJust as dayAlways follows night

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

Darkness is just light turned inside out.