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I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any hierarchy of taste, and that's what L.A. always was to me: It's not really a town of culture - it's a town of entertainment.

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Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.

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It's difficult for people to visualize from my drawings what it's going to be, so I often find myself talking them into things that they go along with, and when they see what's been made, they are surprised.

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My aunt was Frances Hodges, who in the Fifties was the editor of 'Seventeen' and later one of the creators of 'Mademoiselle.' She was my Auntie Mame; she loved culture. She was a Quaker, but she became a milliner against all Quaker logic - they feel that fashion and art are vanities - because she loved fashion.

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I have made things for Calvin Klein and other designers, and it's interesting to see the way each person approaches it.

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I hope that when you see my work, you are looking at yourself looking.

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I'm interested in light. It's a very direct, pragmatic, American, rather naive approach.

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One way to understand light in the ocean of air is by flying it. Life in the air is an extension of perceiving.

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I apprehend light - I make events that shape or contain light.

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There was a time when I restored antique planes to support my art habit.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 6th, 1943

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