Top 533 Lighting Quotes & Sayings

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

Please listen to me - you are not paying attention. I am talking to you about the Holy Scriptures, and you are looking at the lamps and the people lighting them. It is very frivolous to be more interested in what the lamplighters are doing... After all, I am lighting a lamp too - the lamp of God's Word.

Lighting is key for me for every project.

It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best people I could and then leave them alone. I don't know much about cameras or lighting, so I'd make sure that I had a really good cameraman who understood lenses and lighting, and I say to him, "This is the scene we have to shoot and this is what I think it should be, you go do it." Same with actors. But really, very good directors who know everything do basically the same thing. They hire you and then they leave you alone.

Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.

Everyone shines, given the right lighting.

Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.

We love the idea of having a really great lighting production.

Whereas men of an older school, like myself, smoke for the pleasure of smoking, men of this school smoke for the pleasure of pipe-owning-of selecting which of their many white-spotted pipes they will fill with their specially blended tobacco, of filling the one so chosen, of lighting it, of taking it from the mouth to gaze lovingly at the white spot and thus letting it go out, of lighting it again and letting it go out again, of polishing it up with their own special polisher and putting it to bed, and then the pleasure of beginning all over again with another white-spotted one.

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.

I live out of my van, which gives me a first-hand appreciation for power and lighting. A few years ago, I rebuilt the interior of my van to include solar panels and a battery that powers LEDs for lighting and allows me to charge my phone and laptop.

I think lighting is a reflection of what is at stake emotionally in a movie.

I believe in naturalistic lighting, which isn't to say natural light.

When I moved to L.A., I had nothing but a computer, a lighting set, and a suitcase.

Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.

By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space.

The best way to know when there's good lighting is when you don't notice it.

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

You can forgive if the shot is not right, or the lighting is a bit off, but not if the writing is bad.

Lighting affects everything light falls upon. How you see what you see, how you feel about it, and how you hear what you are hearing. Replace the 'a' with an 'e' and you get lighting effects!

Light is one of the basic areas that will give you comfort, but it is undergoing a technological revolution in moving from conventional lighting to semiconductor-based lighting, and as it does that, it is becoming intelligent with the transition from analogue to digital.

Metal shades only give directional lighting, which is great for a desk or work area, but not for ambient lighting. Fabric shades are much softer.

The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the sense of staging and heightened color and exaggerated lighting, not a surreal or fictive moment... I think the lighting and feeling of Cinemascope, the movies I saw as a kid, always stayed with me as a kind of glorious vision of reality.

And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.

You cannot brighten another's path without lighting your own.

When you take your step your dream comes true,you see the sky with fluffy clouds you take your breath-the flowers bloom you belth your way to the top of the mountain you see the sky it leaves you nothing but bumps the rain comes down the lighting hits you are the thunder and Im your lighting just deal with everything Naturally.

Everything is really about lighting.

Lighting is everything in order to get the 'perfect' selfie.

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.

Life is all about seating and lighting.

The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room

Lighting is everything. It creates mood and has an emotional effect on you.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

Fiery and sweet, all at the same time. A flame in the dark, lighting my way.

Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And you feel that these actors are in this situation and the audience is not thrown by a pretty picture or by bad lighting.

I'm obsessed with lighting. I'm constantly shopping for different lightbulbs. I love rainbow lightbulbs. And also, one should not live without dimmers. Life is all about lighting.

Lighting one candle from another - Winter night

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

In the evening I love lighting all my candles. It creates such a beautiful ambiance.

Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Glamour really has to do with good lighting, doesn't it?

I don't like the way I look in a car. The lighting is very bad.

I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.

And I was very successful at baby photography... Strange isn't it? Because some of my portraits of babies were - I used dramatic lighting, shadow lighting, and I didn't use flash. We didn't have flash in those days, we just had floodlights, and I was photographing babies as I would an object - an inanimate object, for that matter.

I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.

Lighting is everything in a color.

I am always fascinated by the lighting and the brands they have at TJ Maxx.