Light Reflection Quotes

No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface.

The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches.

When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.

The Mirrorball is so amazing.

Do not the Rays of Light which fall upon Bodies, and are reflected or refracted, begin to bend before they arrive at the Bodies; and are they not reflected, refracted, and inflected, by one and the same Principle, acting variously in various Circumstances?

Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level.

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light.

...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have sworn...as the white horses of the wave crests are to pull of the moon.

[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye, you study the way irises reflect emotion. You go into great scientific detail.

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

The bubbles are thinner than wavelengths of light.

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) — a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be.

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.

Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.

And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

Light refused increases darkness.

I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown.

The mercury light doesn't show red. It makes the blood in your skin look blue-black. But see how splendidly it brings out the green in the plants.

That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.