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

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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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.



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.

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.



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

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



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

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



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

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



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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Bible teaching about the Second Coming of Christ was thought of as “doomsday” preaching. But not anymore. It is the only ray of hope that shines as an ever brightening beam in a darkening world.

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I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.



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What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.



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