I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.

-Alberti, Leon Battista
  On Painting (translated by Cecil Grayson).

A chair should be judged by one's pants, a jewel by the light in a lady's eyes, a typewriter by the hovering fingers.

-Anonymous
  On good design. In Time,12  Jan.

Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done.

-Arnold, Matthew
  'Empedocles on Etna', act1, sc.2, l.397^400.

   With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Morality'.

The line of festal light in Christ-Church hall.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'The Scholar-Gipsy', l.129.

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Literature and Dogma, preface.

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

-Ascham, Roger
  The Schoolmaster, bk.2.

Still I enjoy The long sweetness of the simultaneity, yours and mine, ours and mine, The mosquitoey summer night light.

-Ashbery,John Lawrence
Shadow Train,'Here Everything Is Still Floating'.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

-Beckett, Samuel
  Waiting for Godot, act 2.

Pluralismöthat is, the conception that there are many different ends that men may seek and still be fully rational, fully men, capable of understanding each other and sympathising and deriving light from each other.

-Berlin, Sir Isaiah
  The Crooked Timber of Humanity,'The Pursuit of the Ideal'.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis1:3.

And God called the light Dayand the darkness he called Night. And the evening and morning were the first day.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis1:5.

   The L is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the L is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms 27:1.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms119:105.

The entrance of thy wordsgiveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms119:130.

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 9:2.

The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat intheregion and shadow of death light is sprung up.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 4:16.

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 5:14^16.

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke 2:29^32.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John1:4^5.