Dan Flavin Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Dan Flavin:

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


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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.
~Dan Flavin


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dan-flavin-quotes/#2b7134e8

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dan-flavin-quotes/#6538d8ce

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dan-flavin-quotes/#1e869771

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/dan-flavin-quotes/#f24f1c75

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