Dan Flavin Inspirational Quotes (5)

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.

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

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

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

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