Lighting Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

  Douglas Sirk

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• Metal shades only give directional lighting, which is great for a desk or work area, but not for ambient lighting. Fabric shades are much softer.

  Emily Henderson

  Giving, Fabric, Shade

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• Leave your yawns behind you and feel the tiny new breeze of life lighting up inside of you.

  Tao Porchon-Lynch

  Tiny, Behind You, Breeze

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• Everyone shines, given the right lighting.

  Susan Cain

  Shining, Introvert, Given

  "Seen but not heard: the introverts in our classrooms" by Genevieve White, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2012.

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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 find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better.

  Cat Deeley

  Eye, Looks

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

  Nigella Lawson

  Fashion, Style, Glamour

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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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• A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

  Joyce Maynard

  Home, Light, Track

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• I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.

  Candice Olson

  Thinking, Light, People

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• The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.

  Liam Neeson

  Wonderful, Never Change, Mass

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• I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

  Tim Robbins

  Fun, Office, Acting

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• I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Education, Flower, Artist

  Robert Mapplethorpe, Germano Celant, Hayward Gallery (1996). “Mapplethorpe”

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• A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world.

  Paul Lynde

  World, Rooms, Comedy

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• Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

  Douglas Wilson

  Skills, Theatre, Realizing

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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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• There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.

  Dan Simmons

  Wall, Light, Law

  Dan Simmons (2014). “Song of Kali”, p.110, Open Road Media

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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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• Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

  Helmut Jahn

  Ceilings, Use, Indirect

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• People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.

  Nikki S. Lee

  Art, Thinking, People

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

  A.C. Grayling

  Prayer, House, Trying

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• I've learned that I need to learn how to direct without making the person distracted and keeping them comfortable, and pay more attention to lighting.

  Kalup Linzy

  Needs, Attention, Pay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think if you don't stop an actor every two minutes, changing the position of the camera and the lighting, there is going to be a flow of energy.

  Cristian Mungiu

  Thinking, Two, Actors

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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