Pierre Loti Quotes

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

The dark is light enough.

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

I'm drawn to the dark but not the nihilistic aspects, the relentless parts, of darkness.

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.

Is not light grander than fire?

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

In the dark, all cats are black.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

The first light had cast the first shadow.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.