I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am I supposed to do?' and she said, 'Just wait, we're going inside to greet the light.'… — 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 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 becomes a… — 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, 'What am… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
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 Image
It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects. — James Turrell Copy Share Image
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 Image
In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not about what we wanted it to do for other things, because again we've used light as people might be used, in the sense that we use it to light paintings. We use it to light so that we… — 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 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 can work… — 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
