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I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.


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Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.



With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.



My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.



Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s been waiting for you.

Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s been waiting for you.



My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.



Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.



I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house.

I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house.



I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.

I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.



We create the reality in which we live.

We create the reality in which we live.



I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.





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He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly.

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I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.



Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better

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Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse?

Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse?



Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!

Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!



My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.



We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death.

We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death.



Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.



The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

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