Dan Flavin quotes
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“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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“It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.”
-- Dan FlavinSource : Dan Flavin, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (1999). “Dan Flavin: the architecture of light”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
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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.”
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“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 FlavinSource : Corinna Thierolf, Dan Flavin, Johannes Vogt (2009). “Dan Flavin: Icons”, Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh
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“Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.”
-- Dan FlavinSource : Dan Flavin (1989). “Neue Anwendungen fluoreszierenden Lichts mit Diagrammen, Zeichnungen und Drucken von Dan Flavin, 26.2.-16.4.1989, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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“I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.”
-- Dan Flavin
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