Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation. — James Turrell Copy Share Image
I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light. — James Turrell Copy Share Image
I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects. — James Turrell Copy Share Image
I’m interested that light has thingness itself, so it’s not something that reveals something about other things you’re looking at, but it… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
My works are about light in the sense that light is present and there; the work is made of light. It's not… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
[My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that I want to… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother,… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my work is… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
We eat light, drink it in through our skins. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of things physically.… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
The sky is no longer out there, but it is right on the edge of the space you are in. The sense… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
I always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream. Because the way that light… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking. — James Turrell Copy Share
I’m interested that light has thingness itself, so it’s not something that reveals something about other things you’re looking at, but it becomes a… — James Turrell Copy Share
I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am… — James Turrell Copy Share
I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the… — James Turrell Copy Share
It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects. — James Turrell Copy Share
Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s… — James Turrell Copy Share
In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not about what… — James Turrell Copy Share
We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general… — James Turrell Copy Share
To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work… — James Turrell Copy Share
I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light. — James Turrell Copy Share
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound… — James Turrell Copy Share
It is interesting to work in Las Vegas. I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any… — James Turrell Copy Share
I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have… — James Turrell Copy Share
![“[My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.” quote by James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/22f/james-turrell-18973_drink_my-work-is-using-light-as-a-material-to_1819386.jpg)
