Dan Flavin Quotes

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Dan Flavin was an American artist renowned for his works using fluorescent light tubes. His pieces are typically characterized by simple geometric shapes and colors, exploring the concepts of light, space, and time. Flavin's work holds a significant place in 20th-century art history and has had a profound impact on subsequent artists.

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All Light Art Barren Blessed Cathedrals Celebrate Concentration Contemplating Desire Diagonal

Famous Dan Flavin Quotes

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

Use Light Contemplating Invitations

Author:Dan Flavin

“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.”

Whole Light Sides Pieces Wall Edges Separation Instance Triangles Diagonal

Author: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.”

Thinking Art Said Matter Facts Light Might Direct Matter Of Fact

Author: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.”

Light Rooms Raises Blessed Celebrate Concentration Savior Icons Barren Cathedrals Raise Up

Book:Dan Flavin: Icons

Source: Dan Flavin: Icons

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

Light Desire Fantasy Instruments Over It Electric Electric Light

Book:Neue Anwendungen fluoreszierenden Lichts mit Diagrammen, Zeichnungen und Drucken von Dan Flavin, 26.2.-16.4.1989, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

Source: Neue Anwendungen fluoreszierenden Lichts mit Diagrammen, Zeichnungen und Drucken von Dan Flavin, 26.2.-16.4.1989, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

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

It Is What It Is

Book:Dan Flavin: the architecture of light

Source: Dan Flavin: the architecture of light

About the Author

Born: April 1, 1933
Died: November 29, 1996
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 6

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Dan Flavin: IconsRelated source material

Dan Flavin: the architecture of lightRelated source material

Neue Anwendungen fluoreszierenden Lichts mit Diagrammen, Zeichnungen und Drucken von Dan Flavin, 26.2.-16.4.1989, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-BadenRelated source material

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