Inspirational Quotes by James Turrell

I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.

— James Turrell

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

— James Turrell

We eat light, drink it in through our skins

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— James Turrell

It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— James Turrell

I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.

— James Turrell