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Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.

If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.

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This wonderful elixir of light is the thing that actually connects the immaterial with the material - that connects the cosmic to the plain everyday existence that we try to live in.

I know that science is very interested in answers, and I'm just happy with a good question.

The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.

We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.

Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.

Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it's occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is...

I would describe Los Angeles as actually not having taste. In New York, there's taste. But you have to remember that taste is censorship. It's a form of restriction.

We're made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can...

There's truth in light. You can tell what elements a star is composed of and the temperature at which it burns by the light it gives off.

I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.

Planets' orbits are elliptical. It's a very pleasing shape.

At my first exhibits, people were saying that's just a light on the wall.

I haven't been that great at attending my own openings. Still, I'm learning to enjoy this a lot more than I used to.

I sell blue sky and coloured air.

In a way, light unites the spiritual world and the ephemeral, physical world. People frequently talk about spiritual experiences using the vocabulary of light: Saul on the road to Damascus, near-death experiences, samadhi or the light-filled void of Buddhist enlightenment.

I don't think my work is about the spiritual life, but it certainly touches on it.

I feel that buildings often have a workaday aspect that you see during the daylight hours, and a more resplendent side that emerges after dark.

I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.

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