Dan Flavin Quotes

#1. A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.

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#2. One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

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#3. I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.

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#4. It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else ... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

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#5. Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.

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#6. My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

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#7. Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

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