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“Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.”

Enough Light Turns Objects Shining Brave Be Brave

“For many ages it has been allowed by sensible men, Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu: That is, There is nothing in the understanding which was not first perceived by some of the senses. All the knowledge which we naturally have is originally derived from our senses. And therefore those who want any sense cannot have the least knowledge or idea of the objects of that sense; as they that never had sight have not the least knowledge or conception of light or colours.”

Men Want Firsts Has Beens Ideas Light Age Understanding Objects Perception Sight Senses Colour Conception Sensible Prius

Book:The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc

Source: The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc

“What magicians we are, turning darkness into light, transforming invisible atoms into dazzling theater of the world, pulling objects, (people as well as rabbits) out of secret microscopic closets, turning winter into summer, making a palmful of moments disappear through time's trap door. We learned the methods so long ago that they're unconscious, and we've hypnotized ourselves into believing that we're the audience, so I wonder where we served our apprenticeship. Under what master magicians did we learn to form reality so smoothly that we forgot to tell ourselves the secret?”

“The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.”

Mean Light Action Objects Fundamentals Mediums Print Chemicals

Author:Rudolf Arnheim

“My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shadow of my consciousness, and the light wherein that thing would become apparent.”

Problem Light Three Consciousness Objects Solutions Shadow Connected Pursuit Data Investigation Solution To A Problem

Author:Rene Magritte

“An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.”

Light Dies Objects

Author:Chris Marker

“Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of icon, or visual likeness, which bears an indexical relationship to its object.”

Light Results Objects Type Bears Reflection Photograph Surface Sensitive Visuals Icons

Book:The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

Source: The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

“I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness.”

People Feelings Light Lying Fall Chance Simple Sky Share Objects Studios Clarity Sweetness Illumination Constancy

Author:Irving Penn

“Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him. Let him look at the dazzling light hung aloft as an eternal lamp to lighten the universe; let him behold the earth, a mere dot compared with the vast circuit which that orb describes, and stand amazed to find that the vast circuit itself is but a very fine point compared with the orbit traced by the starts as they roll their course on high.”

Men Looks Mean Light Eye Earth Turns Universe Courses Objects Fine Eternal Mere His Eyes Surround Contemplating Hung Amazed Lamps Majesty Lofty Dots Circuits Orbit Dazzling Orbs

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I can only speak for myself but for me imagination and invention cannot generate something more important, more beautiful and more terrifying than the common object, amplified by the attention that we give it. An object alone, in front of me who is alone, exactly in front of me just as I would like to have in front of me someone who really interests me, in a good light to better observe it.”

Giving I Can Important Light Beautiful Speak Interest Imagination Common Attention Fronts Objects Invention

Author:Domenico Gnoli

“Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.”

People Mind Light Education Liberty Security Dangerous Objects Ought Institutions Freedom And Liberty Freedom Liberty Schools And Education Encroachment Crafty

Book:James Madison's

Source: James Madison's

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