"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the face of the waters. And God said 'Let there be light;" and there was light. And God saw that the light was good..."
- Genesis 1:1-4

"While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light..."
- John 12:36

"Scientific measure of luminosity: 1 glimmer=100,000 bleans. Usherettes' torches are designed to produce between 2.5 and 4 bleans, enabling them to assist you in falling down stairs, treading on people or putting your hand into a Neapolitan tub when reaching for change."
- Douglas Adams & John Lloyd The Meaning of Liff

"...so there shone around me a living light, leaving me swathed in such a web of its glow that naught appeared to me..."
- Dante Alighieri Paradiso

"It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off."
- Woody Allen

"light displays its brilliance only against a backdrop of darkness."
- Tadao Ando

"What's the difference between pornography and erotica? Lighting..."
- Anonymous

"...a lamp is waiting in the window, and through it, the house too is waiting. The lamp is the symbol of prolonged waiting."
- Gaston Bachelard The Poetics of Space

"Duct tape is like The Force. It has a dark side, it has a light side, and it holds the universe together."  
- Carl Zqanzig

"Shade too can be inhabited"
- Gaston Bachelard The Poetics of Space

"The fair, frail palaces,
The fading alps and archipelagoes,
And great cloud-continents of sun-seas."
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich Sonnet: Miracles

"Light is the key to well-being."
- Le Corbusier
"Light and shade are the loudspeakers of this architecture of truth, tranquility and strength. Nothing further could add to it."
- Le Corbusier
"Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light."
- Le Corbusier
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
- Le Corbusier
"I compose with light"
- Le Corbusier
"The history of architectural material... has been the endless struggle for light... in other words, the history of windows."
- Le Corbusier
"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."
- Le Corbusier
"Lighting creates landmarks."
- Motoko Ishii
"Light has a great influence on human sensitivity. It reaches the depths of one's heart and awakens something asleep there."
- Motoko Ishii
"All light is beautiful. There is no ugly light."
- Motoko Ishii
"Beauty can be sensed only when light exists."
- Motoko Ishii
"For those of us who live here on earth, the most important things are air, water and light."
- Motoko Ishii
"The 21st Century will be the Age of Light."
- Motoko Ishii
"Who doth ambition shun
And loves to live I' the sun,
Seeking food he eats,
And pleas'd with what he gets."
- William Shakespeare As You Like It
"Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons,
and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping houses,
and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame colour'd taffeta,
I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of day."
- William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1
"...And jewels, happy discoveries. The gleam of mineral colours and flashing facets of crystals. Gems to be sought and set; to forever play with light to man's delight, in never-ending beams of purest green, or red or blue or yellow, and all that lives between. Light!"
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Daylighting can be beautifully managed by the architect if he has a feeling for the course of the sun as it goes from east to west and at the inevitable angle to the south. The sun is the great luminary of all life. It should serve as such in the building of any house."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building..."
- Frank Lloyd Wright