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" All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now. "

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" 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 feel colour, and experience it. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't worry about whether anyone knows anything about art. "

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" The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places. "

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" We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. "

" We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense. "

" In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air. "

" 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 just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception. "

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" If you take blue paint and yellow paint and you mix them, you get green paint. But if you take blue light and yellow light and mix them, you get white light. This is a shock to most people. "

" It's possible to gather light that's older than our solar system. "