--- title: "1 Art Happy Quotes By James Turrell" description: "1 Art Happy quotes by James Turrell. Plus more from James Turrell and more Art Happy sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b6/james-turrell-18973_answers_science-strives-for-answers-but-art-is-h_1596370.jpg" --- > [Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/science-strives-for-answers-but-art-is-happy-with-a-good-question/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b6/james-turrell-18973_answers_science-strives-for-answers-but-art-is-h_1596370.jpg) ## More by James Turrell > [I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/i-am-not-an-earth-artist-i-m-totally-involved-in-the-sky/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) > [With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/with-no-object-no-image-and-no-focus-what-are-you-looking-at-you-are/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) > [We eat light, drink it in through our skins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/we-eat-light-drink-it-in-through-our-skins/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/i-m-interested-that-light-has-thingness-itself-so-it-s-not-something/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) > [I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/i-was-maybe-5-or-6-and-my-grandmother-would-begin-sitting-me-in-the/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/i-ve-always-felt-that-night-doesn-t-fall-night-rises-there-are-these/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) > [It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/it-was-important-that-people-come-to-value-light-as-we-value-gold/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/space-has-a-way-of-looking-it-seems-like-it-has-a-presence-of-vision/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) > [In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not about what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/in-thinking-of-light-if-we-can-think-about-what-it-can-do-and-what-it/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/we-live-within-this-reality-we-create-and-we-re-quite-unaware-of-how/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/to-have-a-certain-new-eight-and-a-hal-f-minute-old-light-from-the-sun/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) > [I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/i-wanted-the-light-to-be-the-revelation-it-has-to-do-with-what-we/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) > [Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/remember-technology-does-not-make-good-work-you-can-still-write-a/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/it-is-interesting-to-work-in-las-vegas-i-ve-always-thought-of-las/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/i-m-known-as-a-light-artist-but-rather-than-be-someone-who-depicted/) [James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art-happy/james-turrell/#itemlist", "name": "1 Art Happy Quotes By James Turrell", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "James Turrell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/science-strives-for-answers-but-art-is-happy-with-a-good-question/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b6/james-turrell-18973_answers_science-strives-for-answers-but-art-is-h_1596370.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b6/james-turrell-18973_answers_science-strives-for-answers-but-art-is-h_1596370.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b6/james-turrell-18973_answers_science-strives-for-answers-but-art-is-h_1596370.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.” — James Turrell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art-happy/james-turrell/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art-happy/james-turrell/", "name": "Art Happy Quotes by James Turrell", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art-happy/james-turrell/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b6/james-turrell-18973_answers_science-strives-for-answers-but-art-is-h_1596370.jpg" }, "description": "1 Art Happy quotes by James Turrell. 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