I always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream. Because the way that light infuses the dream, the way the atmosphere is colored, the way light rains off people with auras and… — 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… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
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
