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title: "1 Use Light Quotes By Dan Flavin"
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> [I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-flavin/i-like-my-use-of-light-to-be-openly-situational-in-the-sense-that/)

[Dan Flavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-flavin/)

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## More by 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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-flavin/my-icons-do-not-raise-up-the-blessed-savior-in-elaborate-cathedrals/)

[Dan Flavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-flavin/)

> [It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-flavin/it-is-what-it-is-and-it-ain-t-nothin-else-everything-is-clearly/)

[Dan Flavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-flavin/)

> [Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-flavin/electric-light-is-just-another-instrument-i-have-no-desire-to/)

[Dan Flavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-flavin/)

> [I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-flavin/i-like-my-use-of-light-to-be-openly-situational-in-the-sense-that/)

[Dan Flavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-flavin/a-piece-of-wall-can-be-visually-disintegrated-from-the-whole-into-a/)

[Dan Flavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-flavin/one-might-not-think-of-light-as-a-matter-of-fact-but-i-do-and-it-is/)

[Dan Flavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-flavin/realizing-this-i-knew-that-the-actual-space-of-a-room-could-be-broken/)

[Dan Flavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-flavin/)

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