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Dan Flavin Quotes

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.

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
Art, Thinking, Light

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

Dan Flavin
It Is What It Is
Dan Flavin, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (1999). “Dan Flavin: the architecture of light”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

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

Dan Flavin
Light, Use, Contemplating

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
Blessed, Icons, Light
Corinna Thierolf, Dan Flavin, Johannes Vogt (2009). “Dan Flavin: Icons”, Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh

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

Dan Flavin
Light, Desire, Fantasy
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

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
Wall, Light, Pieces

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