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Well, Kenneth Clark remarked in one of his books, that

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The thing that distinguishes a landscape painter is an especially intense emotional response to light.

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I do believe that's true.

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There are, sounds crazy to say, but in my dark room, in Colorado,

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After I've been working for days, or sometimes months outside, and if I was working in the dark room,

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And I knew that it was day time, I swear I could tell, in the dark room,

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When the sun came in and out from behind clouds.

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Light is a physical thing that we are working with.

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It's also obviously a metaphor. It's what you are working with to arrive at metaphors.

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It's the age-old symbol for truth. It's the expression of truth.

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Yea, it's a loaded thing, but fundamentally though,

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It is just a deeply mysterious, compelling ingredient

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For your understanding of life and your response to it.

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I'm not sure if I can say anything more about it.

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It's at the center of why one makes pictures and how one makes one.