Lighting Quotes

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.

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

Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

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.

Rude staff, bad lighting, and dirty bathrooms are all signs of a bad restaurant and a good reason to leave a restaurant!

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

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

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

Let it all out. If only I could. Letting it all out would involve me exploding like a firework, a beautiful riot of rainbow sparks bouncing around the car and lighting up the entire lot.

All the things that most people hate about traveling -- the recycled air, the artificial lighting, the digital juice dispensers, the cheap sushi -- are warm reminders that I'm home.

Everyone shines, given the right lighting.

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

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.

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

When you get into your 40s, it's all about lighting. It's hard. You have to face whether the way you look is your self-worth or not. Once you get beyond that, it's all about what's in your heart.

I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.

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

Life is all about seating and lighting.

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

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.

A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.

I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing.

You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props.

The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.

I don't like to be on a set and wait three hours, just to make some lighting adjustments. I like to shoot. That's what I want to do. I'd rather shoot something dumb than wait.

Nash has been the sun lighting up the horizon of my life, outshining everything else in my world. I'd thought once that he was to good to be true. Turns out I was right.

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.

By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space.

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

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.

I got addicted to lighting people up, just seeing people so happy 'cause they rediscovered what they're capable of and so that became my life's work.

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.

I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in art, from the textures, and all of that. I'm always playing with it.

I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.

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.

Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

Men accept compliments much better than women do. Example: "Mitch, you look great." Mitch: "Thanks." On the other side: "Ruth, you look great." Ruth: "I do? Must be the lighting."

Everything is really about lighting.

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.

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

A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one

Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.

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

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.

I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.