Lennart Nilsson Quotes

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.

Lighting is everything. It creates mood and has an emotional effect on you.

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!

Available light is any damn light that is available!

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.

The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master

God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.

I think pure light has something to do with actually seeing everything at once. It's kind of a nirvana of sorts.

A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.

The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

To learn to read is to light a fire.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.