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

- 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; …

- Dan Flavin

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

- Dan Flavin

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

- Dan Flavin

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

- 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