14 Lamps

 

For a period of a couple of weeks (three or four), I was taking regular pictures of lamps, photo-shopping them artistically (well, semi Artistically), and posting them.  And here they are. 

 

 

“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.” - Robert Ingersoll

 

 

When you fall

I can't help notice

No light in our eyes

In our eyes

- Love and Rockets “Light”

 

 

“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.” - Unknown

 

 

Fluorescent flat caffeine lights

Its furious balancing

- REM, “Daysleeper”

 

 

“Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge.” - Buddha

 

 

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.” – Margaret Fuller

 

 

Take me out tonight

Because I want to see people and I

Want to see life

- The Smiths, “There is a Light that Never Goes Out”

 

 

 “There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.” – James Thurber

 

 

“The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.” – Henry Kissinger

 

 

Yet still a light is shining

From that lamp on down the hall.

Maybe the star of Bethlehem

Wasn't a star at all.

- Neil Young, “The Star of Bethlehem

 

 

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” – Carl Jung

 

 

The lamppost stands with folded arms

Its iron claws attached

- Bob Dylan, “Gates of Eden

 

 

“What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.” - M. C. Escher,