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- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take blue paint and yellow paint and you mix them, you get green paint. But if you take blue light and yellow light and mix them, you get white light. This is a shock to most people.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at light as a material. It is physical. It is photons. Yes, it exhibits wave behavior, but it is a thing.
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people in L.A. do orient themselves to light. I used to call it 'Tan Fascist Culture.' Everyone there is tanned, wears dark sunglasses, looks like a movie star even when they're not.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in light. It's a very direct, pragmatic, American, rather naive approach.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020