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I sell blue sky and coloured air.

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

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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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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.

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

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Art history is littered with work that involves light.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 6th, 1943

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