One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.

I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

And it's a cold place the world, especially when warmed by arsen.

To get Congress to do anything.

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

I don't think young people need to see the face of the deceased.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

People know when youre frontin.