Dan Flavin Quotes

Electric Light Is Just Another Instrument. I Have No Desire To Contrive Fantasies Mediumistically Or Sociologically Over It Or Beyond It.

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.

My Icons Do Not Raise Up The Blessed Savior In Elaborate Cathedrals. They Are Constructed Concentrations Celebrating Barren Rooms. They Bring A Limited Light.

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.

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.