Natural Light Quotes:

A room is not a room without natural light.

- Louis Kahn

source: Louis I. Kahn, Peter S. Reed (1970). “Global architecture”

topic: Light, Rooms, Natural, Natural Light

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.

- Louis Kahn

topic: Light, Quality, Today, Every Second, Natural Light

Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.

- David Livermore

topic: Light, Innovation, Temperature, Avoidance, Disturbance

Like the Impressionists, I enjoy the effects of light, and especially natural light on the figure. If I could, I would take each viewer along to my favorite places along the seacoasts or in the mountains to the secret places of nature.

- Ariana Richards

topic: Light, Secret, Mountain, Impressionists, Natural Light

I see light at the end of the tunnel.

- Walt Whitman Rostow

source: Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

topic: War, Tunnels, Light, Trippy, Staying Positive In Life

No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a pagan and an apostate is the difference between an unmarried woman and an adulteress. For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. Therefore many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but also the natural light which pagans possessed.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Men, Light, Differences, Unmarried, Natural Light

Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

- David Daiches

topic: Men, Light, Literature, Artificial Light, Natural Light

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

- Galen Rowell

topic: Photography, Real, Light, Photography And Light, Natural Light

Each building should produce as least as much energy as it's going to need, and have more to put on the grid. They should be using all of the natural light and natural heat.

- Christiana Figueres

source: "We'll Have a Global Climate Treaty in 2015". Interview with Catherine Brahic, www.slate.com. March 22, 2014.

topic: Natural Light

She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more natural light...

- John Connolly

topic: Light, Hair, Cosmetics, Natural Light

Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light by the clouds of thought and longing and fear; the overcast of the conditioned mind; the hurricane of I am.

- Stephen Levine

source: Stephen Levine (2010). “A Gradual Awakening”, p.6, Anchor

topic: Clouds, Light, Shining, Blocked, Overcast

When you're designing clothing, you really only have one point of focus, and that's the body. But home is fabrics and furniture and floors and natural light. If fashion is a planet, home is more like a universe.

- Betsey Johnson

topic: Fashion, Home, Light, Natural Light

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .

- Blaise Pascal

source: Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.97, Open Road Media

topic: Light, If There Is A God, Knowing, Natural Light

The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect. But in common sense this light does not return upon itself by critical reflection, and is not perfected by what we shall learn to know as a scientific habit.

- Jacques Maritain

topic: Reflection, Light, Common Sense, Critical Reflection, Natural Light

Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.

- Edward Jay Epstein

topic: Real, Loss, Light, Natural Light, Skin Tone

I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Baby, Light, Two, Natural Light

I created my own space, which was called the cave. It was a live/work space in downtown Los Angeles on 7th and Spring. When I lived there it was quite derelict. I got this massive space and half of it was my bedroom and the other half of it was the back room - no [natural] light, all fluorescent lights.

- Kesh

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Spring, Light, Space, Derelict, Downtown Los Angeles

A ceiling fixture that places a floating assembly of large pebbles below a simple modern aluminum disc. These in turn reflect each other, bouncing light between their taught bio-morphic surfaces and reflecting the environment around them. During the day, the piece acts as a sculptural object reflecting the dynamics of natural light and movement of people around them.

- Ross Lovegrove

topic: Simple, Light, People, Bios, Aluminum

Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced that if you follow closely the natural light of your spirit, you will see ... that all the religions in the world are only human inventions and that everything your religion teaches you and forces you to believe as supernatural and divine is at heart only error, lie, illusion and trickery.

- Jean Meslier

topic: Atheist, Lying, Believe, Natural Light, Human Inventions