Dan Flavin Quotes

#1. Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

Robert Jordan

#2. If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

John Waters

#3. 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.

Dan Flavin

#4. 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.

Dan Flavin

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

Dan Flavin

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

Dan Flavin

#7. I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled

Bruce Lee

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

Dan Flavin

#9. We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.

Mika.

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

Dan Flavin

#11. 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.

Dan Flavin

#12. If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

Robertson Davies

#13. When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

Jeffrey Eugenides