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Dan Flavin Quotes

Type:
Sculptor Quotes
Category:
American Sculptor Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 1, 1933
Date of Death:
November 29, 1996
Nationality:
American
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Dan Flavin

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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.
Dan Flavin

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

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

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

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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