Lighting Quotes

• The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Perfect, Important, All Time

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• Lighting affects everything light falls upon. How you see what you see, how you feel
  about it, and how you hear what you are hearing. Replace the 'a' with an 'e' and you get lighting effects!

  Jean Rosenthal

  Fall, Light, How You Feel

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• The best way to know when there's good lighting is when you don't notice it.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Way, Good Lighting, Knows

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• You cannot brighten another's path without lighting your own.

  Frank McKinney

  Stay Strong, Path, Strong

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• An effective lighting design is like a beautiful painting. Your medium is bringing someone to an emotional state he or she would not achieve at that moment without your art. This does not and can not happen by accident.

  Unknown

  Beautiful, Art, Emotional

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• Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Eye, Body, Faces

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

  Meryl Streep

  Perfect, Annoyed, Attention

  "Meryl Streep on "Marvin's Room"". Interview with Henri Béhar, www.filmscouts.com. December 22, 1996.

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• Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our job is to support their poetic direction.

  Jules Fisher

  Jobs, Support, Theatre

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• Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

  Tillie Olsen

  Doe, Results, Occasional

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• Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

  Albert Hadley

  Light, Design, Important

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• Lighting is vital. Without that they've got nothing. And, of course, color and texture. When they showed me a little piece of Finding Nemo, I said this has got to be the biggest hit.

  Joe Grant

  Finding The One, Color, Pieces

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• Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

  Joe McNally

  Brain, Wonderful, Surgery

  Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.100, Pearson Education

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• Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

  Seneca the Younger

  Travel, Stars, Sky

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• Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.

  Edgar Degas

  Light, Etc, Evening

  Robert Hale Ives Gammell, Edgar Degas (1961). “The shop-talk of Edgar Degas”

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• I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.

  Kate Spade

  Lamps, Overhead, I Can

  "Kate Spade offers insights on her stylish home". Interview with Stacy Downs, www.kentucky.com. September 29, 2012.

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• Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

  A.C. Grayling

  Prayer, House, Trying

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• as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Fighting, Promise

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

  Edward S. Walker, Jr.

  Lamps, Rooms, Mood

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• The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.

  Jean Rosenthal

  Successful, Brilliant, Designer

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• Life is all about seating and lighting.

  Graydon Carter

  Life Is

  "Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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  I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Positive, Stars

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino, 1968.

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• The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.

  Susan Cain

  Secret, Life Is

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.264, Broadway Books

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• Glamour really has to do with good lighting, doesn't it?

  Nigella Lawson

  Fashion, Style, Glamour

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• There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

  Tyra Banks

  Photography, Keys, Cameras

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• I'm obsessed with lighting. I'm constantly shopping for different lightbulbs. I love rainbow lightbulbs. And also, one should not live without dimmers. Life is all about lighting.

  Stevie Nicks

  Shopping, Rainbow, Different

  "Jesse Ventura plays the blame game" by Leah Garchik, www.sfgate.com. May 16, 2001.

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