Vitruvius Quotes

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.

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.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light. Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied with static light and forget the endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day.

Also marvelous in a room is the light that comes through the windows of a room and that belongs to the room. The sun does not realize how beautiful it is until after a room is made. A man’s creation, the making of a room, is nothing short of a miracle. Just think, that a man can claim a slice of the sun.

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.

Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

A tiny dark object came sailing out of the window and landed at the giant's feet. Polybotes yelled, "Grenade!" He covered his face. His troops hit the ground. When the thing did not explode, Polybotes bent down cautiously and picked it up. He roared in outrage. "A Ding Dong? You dare insult me with a Ding Dong?" He threw the cake back at the shop, and it vaporized in the light.

There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

The whole switch from film to digital has changed some of the ways I use color and the juxtaposition of light and dark. It's getting better with digital, the separation's gotten better, but I still feel like it's really flatter than film, so I do a lot of screening and subtle textural printing and painting on clothes for film to get it not to look flat.

...in my head, a person who was out walking and walking in the dark comes to a little house with a light on. Waits at the door for a moment, and then goes in finds such a welcome that she stays.

An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.

Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

In order to develop love - universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.

The stage is like a cage of light. People are no longer afraid of you - they are the ones out there in the dark, watching.