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Jennifer Tipton (born September 11, 1937) is an American lighting designer. She has designed for dance, theater, and opera.

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I've often called the lighting for the stage the "music for the eye", because it has the same way of making an atmosphere, making a landscape, changing fluidly from one place to another without seeming effort.

Atmosphere, Effort, Eye, Fluidly, Music, Way

I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone to something else because they got such a raw deal from critics, and some are quite wonderful writers.

Age, Gone, Know, Would Be

I believe in the hand-brain, pencil-to-paper-brain connection. In fact, I teach and I have the first year students do all of their drafting by hand to remind them that there is this physical connection between the two.

Believe, Connection, Drafting, Hands, Years

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

Art, Dirty, People, Satisfied, Theatre

There is a way to support the art and to allow and encourage the art to flourish while being critical. In fact, I find in teaching that self-critique is one of the best ways to have your art grow, but if you start tearing yourself down then, it's not going to go anywhere. I feel the same about critics. I feel that's happening all too often.

Allow, Art, Self, Start, Teaching, Ways

I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it.

Attention, Audience, Doe, Ninety Nine, Past, Say

I feel also that the rhythm of a production is made by the lighting. If it feels like it's too long and too slow, it may well be because the light is changing in a way that makes the audience feel that way. Definitely I feel that light and music are very closely related.

Audience, Feels, Light, Like, Long, May

After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to overwhelm me.

Feeling, Feelings, Giving, Overwhelm, Papers, Years

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