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

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream. "

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

" 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 live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me. "

" 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. "

" 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 sell blue sky and coloured air. "

" I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing - to see yourself seeing. "

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

" Color is just in a small area of our vision, and the rest we add with the mind. "

" 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. "

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

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" Art history is littered with work that involves light. "

" 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. "

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

" You can't stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didn't work at Hadrian's Wall. The Great Wall of China didn't work. The Berlin Wall. "

" 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. "