„Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.“

„The conversion of mass to energy and light is the prerogative of every star.“

—  Antonella Gambotto-Burke, buch The Pure Weight of the Heart

Quelle: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 357.

„Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.“

—  Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues French writer, a moralist 1715 - 1747

Quelle: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 166.

„Plastic expression in architecture is inconceivable without colour. Colour and light complete one another. Without colour architecture is expressionless, blind... If the Functionalists wish to suppress colour completely, then this merely proves that they never understood the importance of colour as an ‘architectural’ element, as a means of plastic expression, no matter whether used with iron, glass, or concrete.“

—  Theo van Doesburg Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer 1883 - 1931

Quote in van Doesburg's his article: 'Space – time and colour', in 'De Stijl', Aubette Issue, series xv, 87-9, 1928, pp. 26–27
1926 – 1931

„The plastic expression of space is inconceivable without light. Light and space complete one another. In architecture light represents an element of plastic expression – in fact, the most important one. An organic relationship between 'space' and 'material' is possible only with the aid of light. The highest achievements in architecture can be accomplished only if light also is treated as plastic form.“

—  Theo van Doesburg Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer 1883 - 1931

Quote in van Doesburg's article: 'Space – time and colour' in 'De Stijl', Aubette Issue, series xv, 87-9, 1928, pp. 26–27
1926 – 1931

„Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be?
O wilt thou therefore rise from me?
Why should we rise, because 'tis light?
Did we lie down, because 'twas night?
Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither
Should in despite of light keep us together.“

—  John Donne English poet 1572 - 1631

Break of Day, stanza 1

„stay together
learn the flowers
go light“

—  Gary Snyder American poet 1930

„You are a pool of clear water where the light plays“

—  Jeanette Winterson English writer 1959

Quelle: Written on the Body

„Every day you play with the light of the universe.“

—  Pablo Neruda, buch Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Quelle: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

„We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
Since first beneath the chestnut-tree
In fancy we played
But coldness dwells within thine heart
A cloud is on thy brow.
We have been friends together,—
Shall a light word part us now?“

—  Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton English feminist, social reformer, and author 1808 - 1877

We have been Friends.

„The advance from drawing to painting should be gradual, and no serious attempts in colour should be made until the student has obtained proficiency in outline and in light and shade. If the artist cannot draws objects in a rather masterly way there is no point in his attempting colour.“

—  Ogden Rood American physicist 1831 - 1902

Students' Text-book of Color; Or, Modern Chromatics, with Applications to Art and Industry. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1881.

„…the dark brought out the prostitutes, Malay divorcees mostly, quietly moving from light to light, gaudy and graceful, like other of night’s creatures.“

—  Anthony Burgess English writer 1917 - 1993

Fiction, Beds in the East (1959)

„Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.“

—  Madeleine L'Engle American writer 1918 - 2007

„Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.“

—  Ursula K. Le Guin, Hainish Cycle

Quelle: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 16 “Between Drumner and Dremegole” (p. 233)

„I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night's light. but hey, that would be going into sexual details…“

—  Mark Sanford 115th Governor of South Carolina 1960

From emails to Argentine mistress; reported in " Sanford-Maria e-mails shed light on governor's affair http://www.thestate.com/sanford/story/839350.html", The State (June 25, 2009).

„One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.“

—  Malcolm X, buch The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Quelle: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

„Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.“

—  Haruki Murakami, buch 1Q84

Quelle: 1Q84

„Remember the storm, the lighthouse
That brought us together
Another storm, a different light
Drove us asunder again
Even though morning or evening
Sky and ocean stand between us
You are always on my voyage
I am always in your sight“

—  Shu Ting Chinese writer 1952

"Two-Masted Ship" (27 August 1979), in The Red Azalea: Chinese Poetry Since the Cultural Revolution, ed. Edward Morin (University of Hawaii Press, 1990), p. 101

„The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass.“

—  Peter Higgs British physicist 1929

in video Meet Peter Higgs by CERN (July 2004).

„Who would expect it so?
From darkness light is brought,
Life rises out of Death,
And Something comes from Naught.“

—  Angelus Silesius German writer 1624 - 1677

The Cherubinic Wanderer