I love the tight focus, the intense distillation.

The magic of this maze of 18 cubicles, made by dividing Dia's third-floor gallery, lies in its intense distillation of light, color and space.

Colin Thubron writes that his distinctive work is in a literary genre of his own, a 'hyper-real world' not of travelogue or literal reality but of intense distillation of a journey.

Each section - "Night," "Fire" and to a lesser extent "Death" - is a stark yet intense pure distillation of its theme.

The magic of Robert Irwin's installation "Part 2 : Excursus: Homage to the Square3," at the Dia Center for the Arts, lies in its intense distillation of light, color and space.

Miller writes like a poet, with a deceptive simplicity - his sentences and images are intense distillations, conjuring the fleeting details of existence with clarity.

Delivered as one long eloquent sigh of voice and strings, it is as intense a distillation of incorporeal yearning as pop music has produced.

As he has said, "Success changes people whereas failure leaves you with a more intense distillation of that self you are."

Primary colors mark the stage picture in dances of intense distillation.