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.
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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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Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and in acquiring the perception is our ability to understand qualities. They exist only as long as a human being keeps them in play. They're - Therefore they are akin to energy.
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When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.
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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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Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a hurricane.
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