Visible Spectrum Quotes

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

Eighty percent of the information we receive comes through our eyes. And if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be one octave that the naked eye can see, which is right in the middle.

I'm interested in light. It's a very direct, pragmatic, American, rather naive approach.

It is still color, it is not yet light.

By the way, most of the light that comes from the sun is green.

I am interested in the physicality of light itself.

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.

I look at light as a material. It is physical. It is photons. Yes, it exhibits wave behavior, but it is a thing.

If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

OK, so what's the speed of dark?

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

The scale of light can be described by numbers called the frequency and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue to ultraviolet. We can't see ultraviolet light, but it can affect photographic plates. It's still light only the number is different.

Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

There are colors we can't see, but they're connected to the ones we can, There's a connection between everything.

Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.

Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.

My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.

There is no light in electronincs. There is lightening. But lightening is not real light.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.