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There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.

~Robert Irwin

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Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.

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There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.

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Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

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To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.

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I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

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For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it. And by doing that, you've actually changed the world.

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If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.

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It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention.

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If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens. I sit for 24 hours, then I scratch myself.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: September 12th, 1928

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