Robert Irwin Quotes

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

You have to understand the nature of light.

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.

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

OK, so what's the speed of dark?

I am interested in the physicality of light itself.

I look at light as a material. It is physical. It is photons. Yes, it exhibits wave behavior, but it is a thing.

This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.

I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.

Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.

Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.

Light is something like raindrops each little lump of light is called a photon and if the light is all one color, all the "raindrops" are the same.

The speed of light sucks.

For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ from it only by having a smaller wavelength.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

It is still color, it is not yet light.

Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something peculiar - and they had the ability to investigate it.

I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Photons have neither morals or visas.

Nobody ever told us all matter radiated. We just assumed it did.

Bubbles have more colors than a rainbow.

I'm interested in light. It's a very direct, pragmatic, American, rather naive approach.