"Pain has an element of blank"

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

Source : Dan Flavin (1989). “Neue Anwendungen fluoreszierenden Lichts mit Diagrammen, Zeichnungen und Drucken von Dan Flavin, 26.2.-16.4.1989, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

“If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe you are a victim. You will feel aggrieved and the twin brother of aggrievment is entitlement. So now you think you are owed something and you don't have to work for it and now you're on a really bad road to nowhere because there are people who will play to that sense of victimhood, aggreivement and entitlement, and you still won't have a job.”

“I've always had mostly gay male friends.”

“I could actually do a lot more if I didn't have things go wrong. So, what I am trying to do now is stay light on the parasites. If you are not drained by anyone you can do way more.”

“I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you happy, and when you get tired of looking at me, I promise I’ll sing.”

“The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.”

“Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.”

“Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.”