Dan Flavin Quotes

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

And that’s the way it is

Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

What you see is what you get.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

I do everything in a straightforward manner.

Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

We have to accept the world as it is, not as we'd have it to be.

I can't deal in ifs or in hypothetical situations. I only deal in absolutes.

Make subtlety obvious.

Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

You never have to guess where you stand with me.

Everything is self-evident.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

I don't want to be mysterious.

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

I say what I think and I think what I say.