Luminous

Famous quotes containing the word luminous:

    “[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist’s office would be full of luminous ideas.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Drawing is a struggle between nature and the artist, in which the better the artist understands the intentions of nature, the more easily he will triumph over it. For him it is not a question of copying, but of interpreting in a simpler and more luminous language.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)